CHAPTER 13

Being an Extra-Ordinary Leader

Helping Others Live Into the Future

We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man’s land, to push into a forest where there are no well-worn paths and from which no one has returned to guide us. . . . To live into the future means to leap into the unknown, and this requires a degree of courage for which there is no immediate precedent and which few people realize.

—Rollo May

Leadership and strategy each consume considerable space on the executive bookshelf. A strategic thinker who chooses not to practice leadership is functioning as an analyst. A leader who doesn’t think strategically is merely a cheerleader for operational efficiency.

Like strategic thinking, personal leadership is an ...

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