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There is a style of leadership that focuses on the good one's subordinates do, and is silent to the bad. Clever students of such a leader soon learn to chase the praise and correctly interpret the silence as indicating a need for improvement. This strategy has its weaknesses (and can look a lot like passive aggressiveness in the hands of an inept leader). Nevertheless, it looks to me like a good model for a positive ethical system, one framed not by sins but by virtues. As an ex-Catholic, this feels novel to me (though I'm sure it isn't, and though I'm sure that some flavors of Christianity place more emphasis on virtue and less on sin) and sometimes I think about what virtues I admire.

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