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Successful leaders are great askers

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
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
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something

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