ABSTRACT
Confident people are patient people, and patient people marshall strong confidence behind their visions. Patience helps one make good decisions in the proper place, at the right time. As patience plays its integrative role in creating excellence, it functions as a timer to make sure events unfold in logical sequence. Experts espouse many methods for increasing patience, but not all of them will work. In fact, finding a successful method for increasing one's patience poses quite a challenge. Lasting patience comes from living in the long term, which means constructing an environment in which everything one do is linked to the future. Patience enables one to integrate and orchestrate the use of the other five New Age skills. Impatience invariably leads to poor decisions, compromised competence, and a focus on short-range results at the expense of long-range ones. Patient executives, knowing that excellence never comes overnight, have the sort of staying power that invents the future.
