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Leadership Principles of the Warrior - Series Twelve Leadership Ascendency (Part 4)
pants, is biased and has an servation influences the course of cooperation, the
agenda to advance. Every- observed. leader is ultimately the
one wants to be right, but leader. Jealous, mean and
not everyone wants proof Attentive, focused and unevolved people will be
of being wrong. Subjec- aware that design of any waiting to disrupt the pro-
tive validation is the rule project potentially biases cesses.
of the gamesmanship, and the outcome at the end of
anyone is capable of any- the experiment, exercise Are you in command, or
thing to “prove” it. When or enterprise, a leader are you waiting for a com-
mand? Which is it? Not by
books alone, or philoso-
phy of the ages, leaders
know the value of evolv-
ing personally enriched
perspective on life. Such
is tempered and trained
by a practitioner’s world-
view. His or her transfor-
mation clearly recognizes
that at some point.
Soon, at the end of his
or her “watch”, wisdom
walks away free and clear,
never looks back, having
been there and learned the
one is in charge of people, insists upon intelligent right track. And, eventu-
places and things, there and constructive checks ally death comes all too
is room to consider that a and balances. Mature open quickly for human life
viewpoint is self-centered. mindedness values the forms, regardless of who
Opinions are personal, opposing view, entertains or what they are. At the
and theories are biased, the alternative position, end of the particular time
by which outcomes are and appreciates counter phase when it is all over,
heavily influenced. Theory proposals. Yet, within the very soon, no one remem-
shapes conclusion as ob- scope of the collaborative bers, nor do they care
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