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Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change...

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If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

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Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

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For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden rule in individual and group, as well as international, relations.
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Harlan Cleveland

Harlan Cleveland

Born: January 19, 1918
Died: May 30, 2008 (aged 90)
Bio: Harlan Cleveland was an American diplomat, educator, and author. He served as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1965 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961 1965.
Known for:
  1. Nobody in Charge (2002)
  2. The Knowledge Executive (1985)
  3. The overseas Americans (1960)

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