"If you want to be a real leader, you can't go around being emotionally erratic, " he says.
"Japan could come out of this crisis as a real global leader, " reckons John Vail, chief global strategist at Nikko Asset Management in Tokyo.
How much might a real effort to improve make your life as a leader more enjoyable?
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Before becoming a leader in the real estate industry, the Harvard grad made a name for himself elsewhere.
But just like a sports team manager, be sure to look at the real issue before concluding that hiring a new marketing leader is the answer.
He went on to say that how I lived from this point forward, and how I showed myself as a leader, would be my real test, not only to the corporation but to myself.
In a party political broadcast filmed at his home the Liberal Democrat leader speaks directly to camera and with real intensity about a decision which he believes has become a weight around his and his party's ankles - the decision to break his word by first signing, then breaking a pledge to vote against increases in student tuition fees.
Mahindra is head of one of India's largest conglomerates, a leader in automotive, steel and real estate.
This week brought a far worse humiliation: both parties have had to abandon their chosen candidates in a last-ditch attempt to bar the way on December 6th to a real outsider, Hugo Chavez, a former army colonel, best known until this year as the leader of a military coup that did not quite succeed in 1992.
Most important, you have to be a good, followable leader, in order to get real answers and respond to them in useful ways.
"It seems like we are returning to the time of Stroessner, when there were no real guarantees, " said Rodrigo Villagra, a leader of Paraguay's Co-ordinator of Human Rights.
Mikulas Dzurinda, a former prime minister and opposition leader, says that the real danger to the Slovak language comes not from tongue-tied ethnic Hungarians, but from the debasing of Slovak by foul-mouthed chauvinists in the government, such as the leader of the Slovak National Party, Jan Slota.
Council leader Simon Blackburn said "under-nourishment is a real problem" in the town.
There are particular concerns about First Minister's Questions, the only real opportunity for the leader of the opposition to land a blow on Carwyn Jones.
In Spain , league leader Barcelona cruised to a 3-0 win at Real Zaragoza with two goals from Cristian Tello and a strike from Thiago Alcantara doing the damage.
We have a research team that is building really cool technology in the M2M area based on real customer scenarios, and we will soon be appointing a leader for the initiative that will help us take the solutions we develop with customers to the market on a broader scale.
Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and makes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
Comparisons with publicly traded real estate investment trusts are difficult because Hines uses its property-management business as a loss leader and takes virtually all its profits from appreciation in property values.
Becoming a worthy leader is like developing any other capability: it requires honest self-reflection, real openness to learning (which includes an openness to being wrong and to not knowing), and a willingness to change your behavior.
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In more statesmanlike tones he warned that leaving the EU would be "hugely destructive of Britain's interests", and he argued - as did Labour leader Ed Miliband in his recent CBI speech - that "our country faces a real and present danger in edging towards the exit".
"Inspired by fireflies... our team of Stanford-trained PhDs are using off-the-shelf methods to create real glowing plants in a do-it-yourself bio lab in California, " said project leader Antony Evans.
"The only thing real that they had that had any relationship to a budget was a tax plan that the majority leader introduced, and now that's even in doubt, " Daschle said.
If you, as a leader, ask these questions, you have the possibility of getting truly valuable information: real answers from your most important constituencies, telling you what they need and want from you.
But Kennedy Orubebe, a former student leader and now chief spokesman for the militant delta group, says that the activists' real target is the government not the oil companies.
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