Don’t say ‘tell me’ unless you mean it

Someone once said that the most important attribute of a leader is the ability to fake sincerity. You have to take that with a pinch of salt, because fake sincerity has a way of betraying itself. In this piece I picked up on one of the characters in Catch 22, an officer who insists that people come and tell when things are going wrong. Our hero, though, knows that it’s not nearly as simple as that.