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The Challenge of Internal Change: Vision, Motivation, and Execution
On September 20, 2015, Pope Francis met with 5,000 Cuban youths and told them, quoting a Latin American writer, that people had two types of eyes: one of flesh and one of glass. With the one of flesh, we look at what happens around us, and with the one of glass, we see what we dream.
An effective leader is the one who looks at the horizon and imagines the opportunities, threats, risks, and challenges that can cross his or her path, and takes those measures that reduce uncertainty.
A leader plans how to reach the desired goal because, as the Canadian author Robin Sharma says, “Who fails in planning, plans his failure.”* Unlike King Midas,† an effective leader must have a proper ...
