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.
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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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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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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