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

Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
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
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
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
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
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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

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