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

Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
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
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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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Opportunity Optimistic People
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust

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