This document discusses metaphors comparing rare fruits to rare leaders. It provides over a dozen examples of fruits such as durian, longan, pomelo, star apple, and miracles fruit and the leadership lessons that can be drawn from their characteristics, such as accepting different perspectives, identifying hidden talents, and transforming negative situations. The document aims to link these fruit metaphors to effective leadership qualities and strategies.

1. Leadership Fruition: Creative Metaphor
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2. Rare Fruits and Rare
Leaders - the Commonalities
Rare Fruits and Rare
Leaders - the Commonalities

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7. Leaders accept
Different Perspectives
Durian is the king
of fruits. Some
people love its
smell; where as
others find the
smell revolting.
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8. Leadership Fruition (3)
When a longan
fruit is peeled, it
looks like an
eyeball
A leader gives ‘black:
news in a transparent
fashion so that they
look like eyeballs
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9. Leadership Fruition (2)
Pomelo fruit has
a Thick rind that
is filled with
sweet flesh
A leader is not lured by
appearances - what
seems to be hard -
headed staff might be full
of juicy and fleshy ideas
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10. Star apple when cut into two haves
the pulp inside looks like a star
A leader may find ways to identify the
hidden star peroformers
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11. Star fruit
produces a star
shape upon
cutting its five
ridges sideways
A leader knows one team
member doesn’t become a
star. Around five team
members when connecting
sideways a star emerges.

12. When leaders fall what shall
they become?
After falling off
the tree.
The Marula fruit
will ripen enough
to attract animals
that people live on

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14. Cashew Apple is
a heart-shaped
false fruit. Its pulp
contains a toxic
oil.
Beware of toxic leaders
who have falsely-shaped
hearts, but with toxic
emotions inside.

15. Cashew Apples
are very sweet
when ripe, but
appallingly harsh
when not.
Moody leaders lose their
taste when falling in the
“mood trap”.

16. Bright scarlet Red
Berries have great
taste and are
available in winter
when no other
raspberries are
available.
Great leaders appeal from
inside and outside and you
may find them when
nobody else does

17. In Multiple Fruits
one flower gives
many fruits, which
later merge into a
single fruit body
So are leaders, they may
allow for individual growth
with an eye to merge
members as one team
later

18. The Miracle Fruit
(sweet berries)
isn’t that sweet;
yet it has the
ability when eaten
to affect the taste
of even sour
lemon to make it
feel sweet
Great leaders know how
to turn sour employees
and news to sweetened
outcomes

19. Some hard outer
pear that needs a
hammer to break.
However; the inside
pulp is fragrant
A leader might hammer
hard-headed staff, if
needed, knowing that they
are juicy inside

20. Lemon-powered
iPod – Fruit
batteries
Great leaders charge their
organizations, and so we
have:
Leader-powered
organizations.The better
the leader is, the improved
charging is

21. Buddha's Hand
citron has a
closed hand
shape. The fingers
only open when
ripe.
Leaders don’t point fingers
unless information is ripe
Leaders give incentives
open-handed in due
course

22. The scaly skin of
the fruit suggests
its name as the
Snake Fruit.
The easily -
removable skin
uncovers three
white segments
Leaders realize that what
may look like a snake
employee may not be.
Leaders stock important
information in more than
one place

23. The Horse Apple
fruit not only has a
creepy
appearance, but
also exudes
unappealing milk
upon touch.
Some leaders are
motivation-repellent from
inside and outside

25. I dedicate this presentation to
Karin Hurt.
Her posts on leadership are
just Simply Fantastic