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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
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

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