Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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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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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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