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“Leadership is an improvisational art. You may have an overarching vision, clear, orienting values, and even a strategic plan, but what you actually do from moment to moment cannot be scripted. To be effective, you must respond to what is happening.”
― Martin Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

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“being criticized by people you care about is almost always a part of exercising leadership.”
― Martin Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

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“No one learns only by staring in the mirror. We all learn—and are sometimes transformed—by encountering differences that challenge our own experience and assumptions.”
― Martin Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

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“When exercising leadership, you risk getting marginalized, diverted, attacked, or seduced. Regardless of the form, however, the point is the same. When people resist adaptive work, their goal is to shut down those who exercise leadership in order to preserve what they have.”
― Martin Linsky, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading

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“Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.”
― Chris Lowney, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World

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