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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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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Jobs Opportunity Years
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
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

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