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In Chapter 4, we focused on the seeing part of leadership — the ability to see opportunities and reframe realities. It can be associated with the cognitive part of leadership. When we shift our attention to the more emotionally related part of leadership, the being, we have found that at the heart of equanimity lies “commitment.”
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Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Laurent A. Daloz, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, and Sharon Daloz Parks, Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World, Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994, pp. 21–22.
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Cummings, T., Keen, J. (2008). Leadership Being: Commitment. In: Leadership Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598539_5
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