Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
WARREN G. BENNISIneffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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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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At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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