Great Books Ep 18: Duty and Emotion: The Emotional Tightrope of Leadership

There are situations where people, especially executives, may feel torn between their responsibilities and their personal feelings. Is it becoming worse with time?

“Alas, that it should be the lot of Sarpedon whom I love so dearly to perish by the hand of Patroclus. I am in two minds whether to catch him up out of the fight and set him down safe and sound in the fertile land of Lycia, or to let him now fall by the hand of the son of Meneoetius."

~ The Iliad - Book XVI (Samuel Butler Translation. p117 / v431)

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