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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision

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