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Andrew was an enigma. His behavior was untraditional, to say the least. It was difficult to figure out what he was all about – whether he was serious, or just clowning around. You never knew what to expect from him. Some thought he was a real pain in the neck. Many felt his mocking behavior and bad jokes were over the top.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Kets de Vries, M.F.R. (2019). The Wise Fool. In: Down the Rabbit Hole of Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92462-5_15
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