Knowing how the environment ...

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.
 Ronald A. Heifetz

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
 Mark Sanchez
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
 Sebastian Coe

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The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.
 Ronald A. Heifetz
But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
 Ronald A. Heifetz
Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.
 Ronald A. Heifetz
Stay diagnostic even as you take action.
 Ronald A. Heifetz