Taking Charge Of Your Own Learning Is

People In Great Groups Have Blinders On. Their Work Is All They See. They Value Failures As Learning Opportunities. They Are Optimistic, Not Realistic, As They Proceed From One Challenge And Crisis To The Next.

That's Nonsense; In Fact, The Opposite Is True. Leaders Are Made Rather Than Born.

The Leaders I Met, Whatever Walk Of Life They Were From, Whatever Institutions They Were Presiding Over, Always Referred Back To The Same Failure Something That Happened To Them That Was Personally Difficult, Even Traumatic, Something That Made Them Feel That Desperate Sense Of Hitting Bottom-as Something They Thought Was Almost A Necessity. It's As If At That Moment The Iron Entered Their Soul; That Moment Created The Resilience That Leaders Need.

Understand The "pygmalion Effect": Leaders Should Always Expect The Very Best Of Those Around Them. They Know That People Can Change And Grow.

Leadership Is The Capacity To Translate Vision Into Reality.