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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

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