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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
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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Ego Give Up Leader
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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

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