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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise 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
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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Leadership Running Thinking
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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