<ul><li>Contradictory impulses to both succeed and fail can be found in every project, every work team, even every individual. Every management choice, Job offer, or new applicant can appear both appealing and unappealing.</li><li>Leadership is essentially the management of dilemmas, and appreciating the coexistence of opposites is crucial to the development of a different way of thinking.</li><li>Deeply held ideologies and cultural values, tunnel vision, selective perception, deference to the judgment of others—these are all enemies in our efforts to see what is really going on.</li><li>The leader whose thinking is constrained within well-worn ruts, who is completely governed by his established passions and prejudices, is as anachronistic and ineffective as the dinosaur.</li></ul>

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