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• History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

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  Past, Beliefs And Values, Our Future

  Max De Pree (2008). “Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader”, p.59, Crown Business

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• When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

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  Problem, Fixed, Generator

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

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  Friendship, Running, Thinking

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• Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

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  Effort, Promise, Doe

  Max De Pree (1997). “Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community”, Jossey-Bass

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• We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

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  Growing, Cold, Growing Old

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• Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

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  Successful, Organization, Choices

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• Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

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  Leader, Legacy, Assets

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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