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What are the secrets of leadership success? What makes some leaders more successful than others? To help us answer these perennial questions, this chapter offers a new framework for understanding leadership success by looking at leadership from three different perspectives.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
—XWarren Bennis
If you wish to plan for a year, sow seeds
If you wish to plan for ten years, plant trees
If you wish to plan for a lifetime, develop people.
—Kuan Chung Tzu (Seventh century BC)
Chance favors the prepared mind.
—Louis Pasteur
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Muna, F.A., Zennie, Z.A. (2010). A Framework for Understanding Leadership Success. In: Develo** Multicultural Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137104649_3
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