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

Warren G. Bennis

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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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Demand Development Moving
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership

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

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