Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
WARREN G. BENNISEffective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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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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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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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.
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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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