If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
WARREN G. BENNISFollowers 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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Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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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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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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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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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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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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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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