Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
WARREN G. BENNISThe most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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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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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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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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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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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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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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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