"What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change."

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Kevin Allen

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Kevin Allen is a business leader and author known for his insights on leadership and resilience, particularly through his influential work 'The Hidden Agenda'.

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"Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback."

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"Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself."

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