In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
WARREN G. BENNISCompanies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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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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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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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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