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On Becoming a Leader:
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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On Becoming a Leader:
…too much intellectualizing tends to paralyze us. But true reflection inspires, informs, and ultimately demands resolution.
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On Becoming a Leader:
To do anything well requires knowing what it is that you’re doing, and you can only know what you’re really doing by making the process conscious – reflecting on yourself, reflecting on the task, and coming to a resolution.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Our lives are made less of small truths and falsehoods that of great truths and the truths than are their opposites, which is why the resolution of basic conflicts is so difficult sometimes.
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On Becoming a Leader:
If you know what you think and what you want, you have a very real advantage.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Perspective is no more and no less than how you see things, your particular frame of reference. Without it, you’re flying blind.
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On Becoming a Leader:
…anyone who wants to express him- or herself fully and truly must have a point of view.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Leadership without perspective and point of view isn’t leadership – and of course it must be your own perspective, your own point of view. You cannot borrow… someone else’s.
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On Becoming a Leader:
What do you want? The majority of us go through life, often very successfully, without ever asking, much less answering, this most basic question.
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On Becoming a Leader:
…once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals…
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