The manager administers; the leader innovates.
WARREN G. BENNISPower 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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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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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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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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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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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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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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