seven bubbles around me, and the next circle would be group
directors, and then team directors, and so on. Nothing moves
up or down, but rather laterally, across. It’s so fluid and flexible
that people who’re used to a hierarchy have a bit of trouble ad-
justing, but it works. We sell it to outside groups.
“But the best thing about it is that every girl in America can
look at the program and see herself.”
There are risks to assume in making the results of your
strategic thinking real. But as Carlos Casteneda said, “The ba-
sic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a
warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man
takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
Unless you are willing to take risks, you will suffer paralyz-
ing inhibitions, and you will never do what you are capable of
doing. Mistakes—missteps—are necessary for actualizing your
vision, and necessary steps toward success.
SYNTHESIS
Finally, the leader combines all the means of expression, in or-
der to act effectively.
Little children are naturally creative, and so are the elderly.
Novelist Carlos Fuentes said, “I really think youth is some-
thing you win from age. You are rather old and stupid when
you are young. The youngest men I ever met in my life were
Luis Buñuel, who made his greatest films between the ages of
60 and 80, and Arthur Rubinstein, a man who became a genius
at 80, being able to strike a note by raising his hand to heaven
and making it fall exactly as Beethoven and Chopin demanded.
Pablo Picasso painted his most erotic and passionate works
On Becoming a Leader