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Leadership Principles of the Warrior (Part 1)
        Instead, the self-evolved humility of                someone else’s resources. One must be
        the maturely humble leader, who needs  wary of the pretentiousness of gullibility.

        nothing of material gain, but achieves               Manufactured acts of credulity serve
        by meritorious individual liberation.                the purposes of lazy thinking and

        A leader does not become enslaved to                 irresponsibility. With and understanding
        the whims of the “money changers”, or  that vast numbers of people believe in
        the hypocrites who have all the need to  myths, magic and mysticisms of all kinds,

        “show and tell”. The leader is a warrior,  leaders persevere to greater ascendency
        who has been in the “trenches” and                   regardless of the adversity. Leaders,

        earned his or her “stripes”, and they                serving as an example of a differentiated
        have the scars to show for it. Their                 personality, supervise and manage the
        hands are dirty, their faces are muddy,              organization so that it actually works

        and the inner being has been tested,                 efficiently and makes sense. The processes
        because their sense of worth is in their  and procedures by which things are done

        vision. It is not breeding or bequest,               are workable, sensible and effective from
        but leading by pleading the wisdom                   inception to action. Progressions and
        of experience and exposure, that one                 the measures that guide them must be

        cannot appreciate unless they have                   designed so that time is not wasted but put
        been there. Convictions rage in the                  to fruitful endeavors.

        presence of cowardice and indecision,
        for the sanctity of thinking at higher               Work activities must make express
        realms of imaginative incitements to                 common sense reality. Quantity is

        transformation.                                      balanced with quality, so that results
                                                             exemplify rationality and competence in
        Differentiation for self-evolving                    completion. People need to know that what
        transformation is challenging in an                  they are doing is the result of effective and

        age of dumbing down, pretended                       efficient leadership, reinforced by wise
        stupidity and contrived slothfulness.                decision-making. Leadership is a hands-

        In a post economic downturn phase,                   on activity and not an absentee process.
        where inefficient giant entities are                 In addition, leaders are receptive to fact
        “too big to fail”, it should come as                 driven suggestions, constructive criticism

        no surprise large numbers of people                  and creative ideas from others. Openness
        invent their “victimization”. Once they  and receptivity allow for the possibility of

        have capitalized on their self-pity and              doing things a little different from in the
        gullible nature of others, they can be               past.
        “bailed” out using


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