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You have to have empathy for folks and say, "I know you gave up all those things.  I know what you went through frankly sucked.  And the people who are coming along now that you're going to be leading are not going to put up with it, it's not going to work.  So I need to have empathy and respect for what you went through, but I've got to tell you, if you want to be successful, you are not going to be successful with those tactics".

— Heather McGowan

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You have to have empathy for folks and say, "I know you gave up all those things.  I know what you went through frankly sucked.  And the people who are coming along now that you're going to be leading are not going to put up with it, it's not going to work.  So I need to have empathy and respect for what you went through, but I've got to tell you, if you want to be successful, you are not going to be successful with those tactics"." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Heather McGowan

About Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.