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Question: Condense and clarify the following 300-word paragraph on leadership qualities into a SHORTER paragraph that avoids abstract language, jargon, biased language, clichés, redundancy, long- windedness, 'weasel words,' weak verbs, complex verb tenses, and passive voice. PLEASE rearrange clunky sentences and CUT vague and abstract language that adds nothing to the sense of the paragraph.

Everyone has their cross to bear. In 2002, forty of the top leaders in business and the public sector were interviewed by Harvard Business Review and they all said the exact same thing: come hell or high water, they had all been transformed by intense, often traumatic experiences into successful leaders who were distinctive. Truly, what was revealed by the interviews was that the most reliable indicator of true leadership was an ability to convert adversity into optimal functionality. Sidney Rittenberg learned about true leadership. It is necessary, he realized, to learn knowledge from even the most trying circumstances. He spent 16 years alone in solitary confinement in Communist China. It was because of the fact that he had been wrongly identified as a CIA agent. To get by, he had persuaded the guards into bringing him books and a candle. It would make it possible for him to finally read. Rittenberg had gotten out of prison with the utter certainty that he could now actually handle anything that lay ahead-- taking this paradigm into consideration, he initiated a value-added enterprise with his wife and at this point in time he is president of Rittenberg Associates, a consulting firm dedicated to forging synergistic relationships between American and Chinese companies. Exactly four important essential skills were concluded by Harvard Business Review as to being what a great leader has: his ability to interface with others; his distinctive, compelling voice; his sense of integrity; and what they called "adaptive capacity"-his ability to transcend adversity and to emerge stronger, more engaged, and more capable of being committed to a project. Through not only surviving his ordeal but also leveraging it into a value proposition, the bottom line is that a true leader is never destroyed, only strengthened. Turn your worst nightmare into a sacred cow.