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RESILIENCE: THE LEADERSHIP SUPERPOWER

Every day most business leaders have to wrestle with ever growing demands on their time and mental capacity. Many of those demands can be supported by one of the millions of tools that are readily available. But there is one tool that you can’t buy, can’t borrow, and you certainly can’t fast track.

That’s resilience.

To me resilience can be earned, but it can’t be taught. The reason being is that the ability to be resilient is the ability to move forward no matter the circumstances.

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