Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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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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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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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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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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The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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