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HOW THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADER BEHAVES
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
—JACOB BRONOWSKI
Leadership is ultimately about behavior. To truly understand leadership is to define and describe what a leader does. In Chapters 1 and 3, we presented many of the dimensions that create the extremely complex nature of leadership. In this chapter, we wish to reduce that complexity to a model of leadership that is more easily understood.
We will present compelling evidence in this chapter that:
1. Not ...
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