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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren G. Bennis

Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites

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