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“I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as forty-four individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of whom wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.”

General Norman Schwarzkopf

John C. Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007), 117
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