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‘Know thyself’

The exhortation ‘Know thyself’ was inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi in Ancient Greece. Socrates went about Athens repeating this, pointing out that people must know themselves before they can claim to know anything else.

It’s just as valid today as it was then. So let me ask you this: what are you? An entrepreneur, a leader or a manager?

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