The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
WARREN G. BENNISPeople in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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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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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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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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