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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

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader

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