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The power of preempting/forecasting and committing to a vision.

"I was beginning to see that there was a way to lead people that focused their own energy and directed it--a leadership that didn't open the clock and repair a faulty part. Instead the leader's role was to focus the group's consciousness on a point of the highest leverage, where a small adjustment could bring about rapid and organic change."

"Eventually I realised that great performance would happen only when the motivation sprang as much from them as from me. I learned to see my job as simply creating an environment where that could happen. Once I learnt to engage their artistry, everything felt so much easier."

Somehow, I imagined the narration in George Cooper Sr's voice.

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