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What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.

— Marcus Buckingham The One Thing You Need to Know (2005)

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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

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Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.

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