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Leadership is a common and quite simple word but rather very difficult word to define due to its complexity and multifaceted composition. According to Bass (1981) leadership can...

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By robin514 GOLD
Washington, District Of Columbia
robin514 GOLD, Washington, District Of Columbia
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Porcellina SILVER, Oxford, Ohio
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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one.... Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil... There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well -- or ill?

alishrops BRONZE, Nicholasville,
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FiletMG BRONZE, Schenectady,
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By Dantemb_3 BRONZE
Worcester, Massachusetts
Dantemb_3 BRONZE, Worcester, Massachusetts
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By TheCatsMeow SILVER
Tuckerton, New Jersey
TheCatsMeow SILVER, Tuckerton, New Jersey
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&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you&rsquo;ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.&rdquo;<br /> ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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By sammyyyyyyyyyyyy BRONZE
Wixom, Michigan
sammyyyyyyyyyyyy BRONZE, Wixom, Michigan
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&quot;He knows the midnight as much as he knows high noon,&quot; JFK on Robert Frost

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By TheCatsMeow SILVER
Tuckerton, New Jersey
TheCatsMeow SILVER, Tuckerton, New Jersey
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&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you&rsquo;ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.&rdquo;<br /> ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon