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New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high, and the obstacles to meeting them are enormous.

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

— Nelson Mandela

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

— Justin Rosenstein

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

— Carol Bartz

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

— Tom Rath

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

— Colin Powell

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

— John C. Maxwell

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

— Lynn Good

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

— John P. Kotter

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

— Colin Powell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

— Rudy Giuliani