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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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