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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Warren G. Bennis

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 must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust

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