11Integration and the Path Forward
“[I am] a fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that the flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is energy and energy can move things.”
—LORRAINE HANSBERRY
The quote that opens this chapter is perhaps more revealing about me as an author than about leadership theory. As the book comes to a close, it might be easy to fall into cynicism about the state of leadership. There seems to exist an infinite number of perspectives and points of view, some so similar they are difficult to differentiate and others so blatantly ...
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