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APPENDIX

First, Fast, Fearless Leadership Maxims

A mercenary does a job because he’s paid to. A soldier does his because he’s ordered to. A warrior does it because he wants to.

One’s training is never complete.

“Leadership is getting people to want to do, and to be able to do, something important.”—Peter Sander, What Will Steve Jobs Do?

When leadership is right, you don’t see it anymore.

Be the cause, not the effect.

Leaders present in times of stress are far more valued than ones who stop by once in a while when things are going well.

A first strike mindset is the path to action. Action is the antidote to stress and fear.

Offensive thinkers don’t ...

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