It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
WARREN G. BENNISSuccessful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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The 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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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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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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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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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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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