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LEADERSHIP
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The responsibility of being a leader means that you will often walk ahead of others, into unfamiliar territory. You will often choose to follow a path that others cannot see. You will blaze a trail where no foot has ever before stepped. In so doing you will clear the way forward, removing obstacles as they present themselves to you, and you will make straight the way for others to follow.

Being a leader means not only going where others fear to go, but putting yourself forward in unpopular causes, speaking up for ideas that are unproven and perhaps frightening to others, and by example showing courage in the face of fear of the unknown.

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. "
-- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Industrialist, and Founder of IBM