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

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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 Reality Vision
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions

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