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Owen Graduate School of Management

Speaker: Kent J. Thiry, chairman and CEO of DaVita, provider of kidney care

Date: May 13

"Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, leadership is in the eye of the led. It does not matter one bit what you think of yourself as a leader. You are the leader other people experience you to be. And unless you can give voice to your weaknesses out loud and in front of others, using exactly the same language that others are using at the water cooler when they're there without you, then you are not fully ready."

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