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On Becoming a Leader:
…we need people who know how to find problems, because the ones we face today aren’t always clearly defined, and they aren’t linear.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Leaders have nothing but themselves to work with.
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On Becoming a Leader:
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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On Becoming a Leader:
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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On Becoming a Leader:
Only when we know what we’re made of and what we want to make of it can we begin our lives – and we must do it despite an unwitting conspiracy of people and events against us.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Codifying one’s thinking is an important step in inventing oneself. The most difficult way to do it is by thinking about thinking – it helps to speak or write your thoughts.
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On Becoming a Leader:
Writing is the most profound way of codifying your thoughts, the best way of learning from yourself who you are and what you believe.
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On Becoming a Leader:
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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On Becoming a Leader:
When you write your own life, then no matter what happens, you have played the game that was natural for you to play.
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On Becoming a Leader:
To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
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