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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren G. Bennis

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles

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