HOW TO THINK LIKE A LEADER

Remind yourself once again that you are not pulled to high levels of success. Rather, you are

lifted

there by those working beside and below you.

Achieving high-level success requires the support and the cooperation of others. And gaining

this

support and cooperation of others requires leadership ability. Success and the ability to lead

others—

that is, getting them to do things they wouldn’t do if they were not led—go hand in hand.

The success-producing principles explained in the previous chapters are valuable equipment in

helping you develop your leadership capacity.

USE GOALS TO HELP YOU GROW

Every bit of human progress—our inventions big and little, our medical discoveries, our

engineering

triumphs, our business successes—were first visualized before they became realities. Baby

moons

circle the earth not because of accidental discoveries but because scientists set “conquer

space” as a

goal.

HOW TO TURN DEFEAT INTO VICTORY

Social workers and others who work on skid row find many differences in age, religious faith,

education, and background among the tragic souls who have dropped into America’s gutters.

Some of

these citizens are surprisingly young. Others are old. A sprinkling are college graduates; a few

have

essentially no formal education. Some are married; others are not. But the people on skid row

do

have something in common: each one is defeated, whipped, beaten. Each one has encountered

situations that conquered him.