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Leadership Principles of the Warrior - Series Twelve Leadership Ascendency (Part 4)

        know when, what and                  opposing viewpoints, and  For the leader, his or her
        where are the most ap-               solicit the probability of           belief system must like-
        propriate actions to be              alternatives. Most of all            wise transform into a

        taken challenges thinking            he or she is not afraid to           matured vision of reality,
 P      processes. Prudent thought  be wrong. Sometimes, for  fortified by reason, and

 O      necessitates appropriate             he or she, wiser counsel,            the willfulness to bravely
 L      behaviors and provides the  skilled advice from a more  overcome the infant nur-

 I      basis for relevant interac-          learned experienced men-             ture of egocentricity. To
 C      tivities. When practical,            tor will be necessary. Ef-           bear up, to deal with hard-
 E      careful analysis attributes          fective leadership under-            ships, to discipline oneself

        the merits of factuality in          stands the importance of             under stress, to remain
 B      deliberation upon each               rising beyond selfishness            focused and persevere

 R      step to unfold.                      to selfless ascendency.              dependably, are critical
 U                                                                                to this quest. The leader
 T      Consequences are an-                 As a self-evolving skep-             evolves and transforms

 A      ticipated and accepted for  tic, with a healthy sense                     beyond those around him
 L      what they are and where              of individuality, assertions  or her. No whining snivel-

 I      they are. Energies focus             must be proved by evi-               ing “victimization” has a
 T      on getting the mission               dence, not emotion or un-            place in the psychic realm
 Y      accomplished efficiently             substantiated conjecture.            of the leader.

        with exceptional effective- He or she understands that
        ness.. Honorable efforts             extraordinary assertions             The leader gets past the
        remain fundamental to                must be back by excep-               pains of sacrifices, re-

        subsequent decisions, as             tional provability. As doc-          grets and failures, because
        the frivolity of foolishness  trines and dogmas come                      living in the present is

        is subjugated by the effi-           and go, as mechanistic               precious for the sake of
        cacy of the facts. A leader  interactions change, while  private liberation and
        consistently endeavors               human nature remains the  freedom. Call it a kind

        to exhibit the empathetic            same, a leader’s “warrior            of stoical state of mind,
        providence of a knowl-               mind set” evolves by the             whereby by he or she

        edgeable authority.                  willful validity of personal  presses forward against
                                             experience and individual  the odds. In addition, at
        He or she is not afraid to           liberation. For such effort,  the end of the day, in the

        take risks, expose personal  popularity may suffer.                       face of condescending
        errors, assert openness to                                                prospects in a devolving



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