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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Henry Cloud

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
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Anand Thakur
To grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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Anand Thakur
To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.
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Consequence Natural People Power Rescue
Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
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Anand Thakur
Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.
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Issues Person Problem Relationship Soft
We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.
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Ourselves Talk Thinking
Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
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Control Freedom Love Marriage Partner Relationship Slave
You aren’t alive if you aren’t in need.
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Anand Thakur
One of the worst things you can die with is potential.
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Death Oneself Potential Worst
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
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Anand Thakur
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
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Company Essence Leadership Reality School Way
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
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Existence Freedom Love Operation Responsibility
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
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Demand Life Mature Person
Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.
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Anand Thakur
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
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Follow Narcissism People Togetherness Trust
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
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Children Fear Leave Pride Reaction Yourself

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

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To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

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