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The Intelligent Leader
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The Intelligent Leader

by John Mattone
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 56m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 5 Leveraging Your Gifts and Addressing Your Gaps

The figure shows two concentric circles, illustrating the seven dimensions of Intelligent Leadership. The inner most circle is labeled “Inner core” and the outer most circle is divided into seven parts representing fourth dimension of Intelligent Leadership: “Leveraging your gifts and addressing your gaps.”

When I was in college, my friend Tony and I spent our spring break on a backpacking trip in the Escalante River wilderness in southern Utah. It was a five-day adventure through one of the country’s most beautiful—and desolate—regions, characterized by striking red rock desert landscapes with scarce water and unrelenting sun inhabited by only the most resilient of plants and animals.

To survive our journey, we had to carry all the essentials—food, water, shelter—on our backs. We spent months preparing, making countless trips to the local outdoor gear store to make sure we had what we needed: tents, sleeping pads, cooking stove, pots and pans, water purifiers. We packed everything.

Everything, that is, but a map.

We had a guidebook with some written descriptions of the route, accompanied by some simple sketches of trail branches and landmarks; and in our youthful arrogance, we thought that was sufficient. The trip route followed a single, winding river at the bottom of a deep canyon most of the way. Why would we need a map for that?

The problem, as we discovered on day five of what, up until that point, had been an extraordinary trip, was determining just where we were supposed to climb our way out of the canyon in order to take the proper trail back to our car. The Escalante River is a winding maze of sharp, 180-degree ...

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