Principle-Centered Leadership

Be reactive: doubt yourself and blame others.
Work without any clear end in mind.
Do the urgent thing first.
Think win/lose.
Seek first to be understood.
If you can’t win, compromise.
Fear change and put off improvement

We may attempt to do it as a kind of intellectual or moral exercise, but if we don’t have a sense of responsibility, of service, of contribution, something we need to pull or push, it becomes a futile endeavor.

Those striving to be principle-centered see life as a mission, not as a career. Their nurturing sources have armed and prepared them for service. In effect, every morning they “yoke up” and put on the harness of service, thinking of others.

so does its outside edge of ignorance

Principle-centered leadership is a breakthrough paradigm—a new way of thinking that helps resolve the classic dilemmas of modern living

So in this section I also deal with the attitudes, skills, and strategies for creating and maintaining trustful relationships with other people.

If our security is founded on the weaknesses of others, we actually empower those weaknesses to control us

wherein a person’s life is buffeted by all the fickle forces that play upon it

political revolutions, and civil wars could have been avoided had there been greater social commitment to correct principles?

Principle-centered leadership introduces a new paradigm—that we center our lives and our leadership of organizations and people on certain “true north” principles