Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Great Leadership in a World of Ongoing Duress

1   Learning How to Realize Potential

2   Realistic Optimism

An Awareness of Actual Circumstances

3   Realistic Optimism

A Sense of Agency

4   Subservience to Purpose

Affiliations Based on Shared Dedication

5   Subservience to Purpose

Affect Tolerance

6   Finding Order in Chaos

Maintaining Clarity of Thought

7   Finding Order in Chaos

The Drive to Solve the Puzzle

8   Setting the Virtuous Flywheel in Motion

Notes

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