JSTOR: Thinking and Learning About Leadership, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1984), pp. 22-34 - 0 views
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Shawn Fawson on 19 Apr 11A link to an article where Cronin describes leaders as "inventors, risk-takers and entrepreneurs. Leaders are individuals who can help create options and opportunities, who can help clarify problems and choices, who can build moral and coalitions, who can inspire others and provide a vision of the possibilities." These leaders possess a "contagious self-confidence, optimism and idealism that allow them to attract and mobilize others to undertake tasks these people never dreamed they could undertake."
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Shawn Fawson on 19 Apr 11Cronin uses a Thoreau quote to describe perception of self. "What a man thinks about himself," wrote Thoreau, "that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate."