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The defining word for leaders is trust. With trust, there is nothing leaders can't get done; without trust, nothing gets done without lots of pain, cost, and time. I studied leadership researchers (Goleman,Tichy, Kouzes and Posner, Goldsmith, and others) and finally was able to hang their collective research onto a simple, three-part model developed more than 2,500 years ago by Aristo tie - the smartest guy ever.
Aristotle said that Greek leaders had to have three critical elements to be trustworthy. We can easily apply his powerful and elegant model to leaders of today. Picture a large triangle. At the base ofthat triangle, trusted leaders have to have good character; on the next leg ofthat triangle, good sense; and finally, the last leg, good wiil.
Good character is composed of what I call the...