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

Warren G. Bennis

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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching 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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success

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