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Leadership Principles of the Warrior (Part 1)
the valor of each moment to climb terroristic activities. Not to forget of
higher. Along the course, the personal course, the diverse schools of thought
style that one embraces and changes in the “pseudoscience” should likewise
should be well adjusted, consistent be approached with caution. No one,
with honorable principles set forth in no guru of pretended exaltation, alleged
a viable system of ethical precepts. trainer of trainers, or so-called expert in
Caution is always warranted along whatever, has all the answers to every
these dangerous and treacherous question from the dawn of time. Having
pathways of life. Critics, cowards and this healthy sense of skepticism, tempered
clowns poke, jest and taunt at every by a rational sense of cynical analysis,
turn. Nonetheless, a leader is resolved the leader studies, evaluates, weighs and
to prevail. As to the teachings of one’s balances the evidence at hand. In today’s
code of conduct, those in command world, especially in the “infotainment”
must be aware at all times as to their age, multitudes claim to be “experts”. You
inherent biases, prejudices, likes and must ask whether such a claimant has the
dislikes. You should be wary and background for such claims. What are
suspicious of dogmatic doctrines that their credentials?
oppress liberation and freedom. It
should be kept in the forefront of all For the wise and mature leadership
ideations, that philosophies of any kind posture, one must carefully assess who is
are based on opinions, as opposed to given advice about what. The way leaders
provable facts based on evidentiary train themselves to think should serve
criteria, etc. as a guiding foundation for all aspects
of service, socially, organizationally and
Through falsehoods of fallacies due institutionally. Yet, not a rigid foundational
to selfish wishful thinking, or “hope framework, the leader remains maturely
springs eternal” in cognitive bias, flexible. Although we are not perfect
many people want to feel good, in that beings by any stretch of the imagination,
others believe the same way they do. we should endeavor to cultivate our
Nevertheless, humans are not robots, journey toward activities in that direction.
and neither are they “hard wired” by Frequently, it is not easy. In order to
some facetious claim of deterministic increase effectiveness, our quest is to
behaviorism. Such is often connected rebuild ourselves as authentic and credible
to the dangerousness of ideological more ascended versions of the original
extremism, sometimes found in various self. We avoid the road hazards where
religions, cultic collusions and distractions detract from the mission we
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