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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

Warren G. Bennis

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years

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