Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
WARREN G. BENNISGreat things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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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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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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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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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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