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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren G. Bennis

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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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