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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
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
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.

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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.

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