CHAPTER 2

PRESENT AS A LEADER

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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN an executive scurry across the stage with his head down, clutching a copy of his presentation, and begin speaking immediately upon reaching the podium? Such an executive resembles a mouse seeking shelter more than a leader about to deliver an important message! Yet we see this kind of behavior all too often. What the speaker has failed to do is acknowledge the audience. Worse, he has failed to demonstrate leadership, the kind that emerges from personal presence.

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