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

        the moment, to seize the             people watcher, one who              growth and develop-
        opportunity to understand,  wears the badge of leader- ment beyond the normal
        to grow, evolve and build            ship remains distant from            range. Average, mediocre

        upon wiser thinking. In              the crowd. Honesty, integ- and run-of-the-mill, is a
        spite of controversy, and            rity, and humility in per-           defeating existence that              P

        the pressures of the more            sonal responsibility unify           permeates society and                 O
        powerfully less evolved,             the clarity of individual            encourages the eventual               L
        an authentic leader stands  differentiation. Avoiding                     demise of the species. A              I

        his or her ground on the             the seduction of conceited  leader faces a vast diver-                     C
        firm basis of ethical prin-          personal illusion, leading           sity of cerebral challenges,          E

        ciple. To know what is               others means forsaking the  whereby the senses are
        right and to do it, urges            usual ploys of deceitful,            assailed every day by                 B
        the courage of personal              conniving, overly ambi-              purposeful acts of stupid-            R

        belief and steadfastness of  tious, and bullying behav-                   ity. Against this onslaught           U
        character. Most will not             iors.                                from grade school to gov-             T

        comprehend the essential                                                  ernment, infecting every              A
        mystique of such inner               However, such self-evolv- communal organization,                           L
        being. Many will claim               ing attributes require the           sect and faction, the leader          I

        “leadership”, but remain             disciplined state of “mind”  must navigate the treach-                     T
        impotent.                            that insists upon personal           ery.                                  Y



        From the integrity of per-
        sonal insight by effort of

        continual transformation,
        a leader strives consistent-

        ly to be an ascended ex-
        ample to others. As most
        assert their ill claim to

        “expertise”, and the “ex-
        perts” pretend the potency

        of their superficiality, the
        leader muses in their de-
        ceptions. Always a stu-

        dent of behavior, a serious


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