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We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.
Max De Pree
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Max De Pree
Age: 92 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 28
Died: 2017
Died: August 8
Business Executive
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Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
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Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.
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We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.
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Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.
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Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.
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We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.
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Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.
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Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
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We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
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A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
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Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.
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The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
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Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.
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Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
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In most vital organizations, there is a common bond of interdependence, mutual interest, interlocking contributions, and simple joy.
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The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers.
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When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.
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When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.
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Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
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