What's in a Leader's Mind?

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What's in a Leader's Mind?

Authentic leaders have absorbed a fundamental fact -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas.

A central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity. In every aspect of life, polarities are inevitable:
How can I devote myself fully to both family and career? Am I a boss or a friend? A lover or a judge? How do I reconcile my own needs with those of my team? Those paradoxes are simply part of life.

Every business interaction is a form of confrontation -- a clash of priorities, a struggle of dignities, a battle of beliefs. Polarities are in the nature of things. How we act, how we respond to those polarities -- that is where we separate greatness from mediocrity.