Great managers are not born in leadership courses. They are forged in the uncomfortable decision to put someone else’s growth before their own comfort.

Most people collect bosses across a career the way you collect frequent flyer miles — mechanically, without much feeling. Some bosses are efficient. Some are political. Some simply occupy a designation the way furniture occupies a room. And then, rarely, there is one who changes the way a person thinks about work, about themselves, about what it means to be led well. That kind of boss is not common. They are, if honesty is permitted here, almost mythological.

Leadership gets discussed constantly in the corporate world — workshops, books, frameworks, job descriptions that list it between Excel and stakeholder management as though it were something you could simply........

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