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Motivational Leadership
By Brian Tracy
Published: September 2008

In life, it doesn’t matter where you’re coming from. All that matters is where you’re going. You cannot change the past, but you can change the future by changing your actions today. And one of the most important things you think about with regard to the future is the person you want to be a week, a month, a year and five years from now.

Just Do It!
How seizing opportunities and responsibilities is the fastest way to demonstrate leadership qualities.
by Brian Tracy
Published: February / March 2008

Clarity is probably 80% of success in every area of business activity.

Leadership Magazine Articles

The RR of Top Leaders

There are two essential qualities of leadership. Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, says that the “Reality Principle” is the most important of all. What this means is the practice of realism in all things.

Realism is a form of intellectual honesty. The realist insists upon seeing the world as it really is, not as he wishes it were. This objectivity, this refusal to engage in self-delusion, is a mark of the true leader.

Those who exhibit the quality of realism do not trust to luck, hope for miracles, pray for exceptions to basic business principles, expect rewards without working, or hope that problems will go away by themselves. These all are examples of self-delusion, of living in a fantasyland.

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