Gear 2 – Your Outcomes

All Men Dream, But not Equally

Research on leadership by the American Management Association has shown that the most important competency for a leader is the ability to develop strategy. Unfortunately, when researchers examined leaders at all levels in organizations, they found only 4% to be strategists.

Rich Horwath, Deep Dive, Greenleaf Book Group, 2009

EVERY leader? The most important competency? Only 4 percent? Really? Why?

All men dream, but not equally. Those that dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make them happen.

T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of ...

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