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PART IIIThe Cultural Foundations of Leadership

CULTURE DEFINES REALITY. EVEN AS a baby you were swaddled in your cultural loincloth: a tight serape close to your mother’s chest, a papoose carrier that kept you strong and upright, a cradle rocking by your parents’ bedside, a bold colorful kanga hanging from your mother’s back, or a buggy strolling through an urban neighborhood. Sounds, language tones, music, family size, food, home—all were determined by your cultural patterns. Most likely, everything you were taught and believed in was framed by a cultural lens.

Through these lenses, culture provides the focus through which groups of individuals ...

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