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What does it mean?
Leaders succeed by inspiring optimism in others.
In plain terms
Leaders give people hope.
What can you take from it?
Inspire optimism to lead effectively.

Where it applies

  • political campaigns
  • team management
  • crisis

Putting it to work

  • communicate vision
  • boost morale

Questions to consider

  • Is hope a tool or a duty?
  • What makes a leader?

Another view

Hope without action can lead to disappointment.

More from Napoleon Bonaparte

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  2. A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction; you must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.

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  3. You cannot treat with all the world at once.

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