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This Summary is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done in organizations. It's about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity and risks into rewards. Leadership that creates the climate in which people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes.
