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People will respond to the environment in which they operate. It is the leaders who decide what kind of environment they want to build.
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…it’s not the people who set the course. It’s the leadership.
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We work to advance the vision of a leader who inspires us and we work to undermine a dictator who means to control us.
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The more attention leaders focus on their own wealth or power, the more they stop acting like leaders and start taking on more of the attributes of tyrants.
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When our leaders reveal their gaps in knowledge and missteps, not only are we more willing to help, but we too are more willing to share when we make mistakes or when things go wrong.
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If we suspect our leaders are bending the truth to favor their own interests, then our subconscious mind prefers we don’t climb into a foxhole with them.
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Leadership comes from telling us not what we want to hear, but rather what we need to hear.
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To be a true leader, to engender deep trust and loyalty, starts with telling the truth.
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We need to know that the information we are given by others and especially our leaders, good or bad, is the truth. We need to know that when someone says something, they mean it.
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As members of a tribe who want to feel like we belong and earn the protection and support of the group, we will often follow our leaders blindly with the belief (or hope) that it is in our interest to do so.
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