A potentially enlightening, yet common-sense idea has propagated itself as a common theme amongst an eclectic reading list: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of highly Effective People, and none other than Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership. (I have a theory that when any two individuals use reason properly, they come to the same conclusion). Covey calls it “Management vs. Leadership”, Aristotle calls it “Practical Wisdom vs. Philosophical Wisdom”, but most revealing of all is how Dave Ramsey phrases it (and I’ll paraphrase it) “Sometimes when you’re busy making your way through a forest with a machete, you need someone to climb a tree, look around, and shout ‘wrong forest’”.

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