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

Warren G. Bennis

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream 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
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
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
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
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk

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