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Leadership

“Are you sure, Robert?”

Grandmother Crosby

Reckless courage leads to death.

Cautious courage leads to life.

These two things, courage and caution,

must be balanced.

The right thing at one time

is the wrong thing at another.

This is why the wise approach everything

with both courage and caution.

Lao Tzu (Tzu, 2018, p73)

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive!

Howard Thurman (Crosby et al., 2019, p10)

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