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

Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
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
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World

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