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On Becoming a Leader:
Everywhere you trip is where the treasure lies. That’s learning from surprise, as well as adversity.
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On Becoming a Leader:
If we think more about failing at what we’re doing than about doing it, we will not succeed.
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On Becoming a Leader:
There is magic in experience, as well as wisdom. And more magic in stress, challenge, and adversity, and more wisdom.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Crisis is so often the crucible in which leaders are formed.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Ultimately, a leader’s ability to galvanize his or her co-workers resides both in self understanding and in understanding the co-workers’ needs and wants…
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On Becoming a Leader:
Competence, or knowledge, without vision and virtue, breeds technocrats. Virtue, without vision and knowledge, breeds idealogues. Vision, without virtue and knowledge, breeds demagogues.
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On Becoming a Leader:
…in the current volatile climate, it is vital that leaders steer a clear and consistent course.
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On Becoming a Leader:
[Leaders] must acknowledge uncertainties and deal effectively with the present, while simultaneously anticipating and responding to the future.
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On Becoming a Leader:
…if there is anything that undermines trust, it is the feeling that the people at the top lack integrity, are without a solid sense of ethics.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Leading through voice, inspiring through trust and empathy, does more than get people on your side. It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
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