People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
WARREN G. BENNISSuccessful leaders are great askers
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Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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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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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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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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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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