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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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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Create Enemy Team War
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking

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