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Leaders, whatever the field, are made up as much of their experiences as their skills, like everyone else. Unlike everyone else, they use their experience rather than being used by it.
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064 |
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Experiences aren’t truly yours until you think about them, analyze them, examine them, question them, reflect on them, and finally understand them.
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092 |
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Most of us are shaped more by negative experiences than by positive ones.
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110 |
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Your accumulated experience is the basis for the rest of your life, and that base is solid and sound to the degree that you have reflected on it, understood it, and arrived at a workable resolution.
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112 |
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Leaders differ from others in their constant appetite for knowledge and experience, and as their worlds widen and become more complex, so too do their means of understanding.
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131 |
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There is magic in experience, as well as wisdom. And more magic in stress, challenge, and adversity, and more wisdom.
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146 |
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…the organization must offer its employees the kinds of experiences that will enable them to learn and, finally, to lead.
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179 |
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Leaders are not made by corporate courses, any more than they are made by their college courses, but by experience.
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179 |
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…hundreds of studies have shown that, compared to predictions based on actuarial data, predictions based on an expert’s years of training and experience are rarely better than chance.
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043 |
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We are not privy to the full extent of the struggle and the burden under which others have broken. We should not try to fault them, for we can never truly appreciate their experience.
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039 |
