Humans love categories. We can’t get enough of slicing and dicing things into small parts and putting them each into their own cozy cubbyholes. We do all this because categories help us make sense of the world.

Classification serves a useful function,but such systems lack an inherent basis in reality. Great leaders recognize the mixed nature of our drive to taxonomize. Leaders also know that our very humanity renders classification ultimately counterproductive.

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