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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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LEADERSHIP   occurs   14 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... leadership.   12&12 p.122, Step Twelve
Let's here take note of our improved outlook upon the problems of personal importance, power, ambition, and leadership.

2.
... leadership.   12&12 p.123, Step Twelve
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought was leadership.

3.
... leadership?"   12&12 p.134, Tradition Two
This brings us straight to the question "Does A.A. have a real leadership?"

4.
... leadership.   12&12 p.181, Tradition Eleven
Much of the political, economic, and religious life of the world is dependent upon publicized leadership.


5.
... leadership, and money?   BB xviii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Would there be quarrels over membership, leadership, and money?


6.
... leadership at all levels is indispensable for ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
IX. Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety.


7.
... leadership, I imagined, would place me at ...   BB p.1, Bill's Story   Go to page 1 in the Big Book
My talent for leadership, I imagined, would place me at the head of vast enterprises which I would manage with the utmost assurance.

8.
... leadership is the best.   12&12 p.191, Tradition Nine (Long)
Rotating leadership is the best.


9.
... leadership is the best.   BB p.565(567), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Rotating leadership is the best.

10.
... leadership of A.A.   12&12 p.135, Tradition Two
They become the real and permanent leadership of A.A.


11.
... leadership, once exercised by the founders, must ...   BB p.575, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.

12.
... leadership to draw votes.   12&12 p.181, Tradition Eleven
A political party wishes to win an election, so it advertises the virtues of its leadership to draw votes.

13.
... leadership, we find, depends upon able example ...   12&12 p.124, Step Twelve
True leadership, we find, depends upon able example and not upon vain displays of power or glory.


14.
... leadership, we should endow each element of ...   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
III. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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