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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Warren G. Bennis

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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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Create Enemy Team War
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment

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