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[email protected] [email protected] ther than divine intervention, our success (as a be sold. country, a company, a team, a family, even an indi- At some point, effective leaders understand sales princi- his year Ramadan is in the peak of the heat - July. Ovidual) depends on leadership. And leaders are ples, including the fact that in general people initially “buy” TThe fasting period is about 16 hours, so it is not a everywhere, aren’t they? Just read the newspaper, or sub- ideas (or any product, really) based on emotion. We make joke or an easy matter, especially for those who scribe to Twitter or Instagram (the two most popular social decisions to “buy” almost everything based on our feelings, work under the sun or travel to different places or need media in Kuwait) and you will be dazzled by leadership, or and then we justify the decision with logic.