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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Warren G. Bennis

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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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Dream People Reality
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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

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