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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

Warren G. Bennis

Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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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Ideas People Standing
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
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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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble

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