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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
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
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
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader

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