Why being boss is hardly pleasant

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My colleague Frank Kretzschmar and I recently hosted another of our leaders’ circles, where participants tell personal stories around a theme we select. FILE PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

Sometime last month one of the finest journalists I know told me he avoids management functions these days, because, he claimed, he’s an awful manager.

He brought me up short. A clever and sensitive man who writes brilliantly and has a personal manner of some kindness and wisdom, I have always seen him as a natural manager.

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