Be leery of anyone in a leadership role that references the individuals that they work with as “my people” and starts most sentences with “I.”

Peter Drucker, nearing his death after 65 years as a highly successful business consultant, offered this key perspective on effective leaders.

“Great leaders could either be ‘charismatic or dull’ or ‘visionary or numbers-orientated,’ but the most inspiring and effective managers he knew all had said we rather than I.”   —  Peter Drucker  —