The crucible of leadership written by Warren G Bennett…

The crucible of leadership written by Warren G Bennett and Robert. Jay Thomas. : leadership crucible can take many forms. Some violent, life-threatening events. Others are more prosaic episodes of self doubt. But whatever the crucibles nature, the people we spoke with were evil like Harmon to create, a narrative around it a story of how they were challenged, met the challenge, and became better leaders.

— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Mental Toughness by HBR

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And measure a life rightly, as Booker T. Washington did — not by the position you reach but by the obstacles you overcame getting there — remembering that the difficulties faced by the one in the arena are largely invisible to the crowd that critiques him, that the crucible, whatever its form, is what forges the strongest into who they become, and that many an ordinary person has found the strength to bear stark adversity, far more often than the frightened mind believes. For the deepest wisdom comes only from the falls themselves: adversity distorts reality in the moment but crystallizes the truth of what matters; loss amplifies the value of all that remains; and it is always easier to build a new dream than to cling to a broken one. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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