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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Warren G. Bennis

Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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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Ideas People Standing
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People

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