To be a leader, you have to kill

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readMay 25, 2022

I like the topic of leadership. Maybe it’s the aftermath of having attended Harvard Business School. At HBS leadership was a buzzword. If you’re trying to get into HBS here’s a tip that will get you in: in your admissions essay mention leadership in every other sentence.

Just now I visited my alma mater’s website, guessing I’d see “leadership” mentioned in some form. No surprises:

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/