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Every spot in the photo below is a galaxy, not a star. Each of them contains perhaps 100 billion stars, and along with them, probably hundreds of billions of planets.
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The center area is a supercluster of galaxies, colorfully labeled CL 0024 + 1654, which is five billion light years from us. The photons that are hitting your retina when you gaze into the night sky at this supercluster (using our amazing new telescopes), left roughly 500 million years before the planet you’re standing on and our own sun was formed; our solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. This boggles the imagination! The civilizations that might have inhabited this supercluster may be long since extinct, as many of the stars in this photo no longer exist—they exhausted their nuclear fuel billions of years ago.
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leaders do not bend
no one's behavior is bent by a leader. Leaders attract like minded people who wish to be like the leader they follow. No one follows a leader they do not like and cannot be "bent" to do so.
Yes, they do
All that's needed to disprove the "leaders do not bend behavior" assertion is the history of Starbucks. Look up what happened when Howard left for a while, and what happened when he returned. Or Apple with Steve Jobs. Or NUMMI with the Japanese management, using UAW workers. Behavior changed due to the personal commitment and examples of the leaders.
My behavior has definitely been "bent" by the drive and example of leaders in my life. I don't want to be like my company president, or my Aikido instructor, or my running coach, but thanks to their influence I'm a more disciplined person and have accomplished more than I thought I ever could. Isn't that the definition of a true leader?
Jeff J.
People do what the boss tells
People do what the boss tells them to do. Some bosses are "better" than others at running things. This is not proof of bending.
Matter Curves Space
Jeff, as we discussed yesterday, this is a great analogy that likely applies to many areas in life with quality & leadership standing at the forefront. The mysteries of the cosmos are only mysterious for a short period, then the power of the human intellect and ability to reason determines that they are mysteries no longer. Quality leadership seems to be a much harder mystery to solve. This is undoubtedly because the subtleties of human interaction are a product of biology, based on chemistry, underpinned by Quantum Mechanics. At the Quantum level the mysteries deepen to the point where reason and logic fail us. You have done a great job of shining a light on the tapestry of human interaction. Walk behind the tapestry and the bizarre tangle of strings and threads undermine the beauty of other side. The process of understanding quality leadership is similar deciphering to the back side of the tapestry. It is a monumental task yet that is what we must do. The Galactic Lesson in Quality advances the cause substantially.
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