Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
WARREN G. BENNISThe manager administers; the leader innovates.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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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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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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