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Integrity is the basis of trust, which is not as much an ingredient of leadership as it is a product. It is the one quality that cannot be acquired, but must be earned.
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure, but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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…true leaders are not born, but made, and usually self-made. Leaders invent themselves.
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Leadership courses can only teach skills. They can’t teach character or vision – and indeed they don’t even try. Developing character and vision is the way leaders invent themselves.
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Good leaders engage the world. Bad leaders entrap it, or try.
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038 |
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Leaders have nothing but themselves to work with.
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It is one of the paradoxes of life that good leaders rise to the top in spite of their weakness, while bad leaders rise because of their weakness.
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What is true for leaders is, for better or for worse, true for each of us; we are our own raw material.
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…leaders learn from others, but they are not made by others. This is the mark of leaders.
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Leaders begin, then, by backing themselves, inspiring themselves, trusting themselves, and ultimately inspire others by being trustworthy.
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