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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.

Warren G. Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
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
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
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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Herds Painting Vision
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
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
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management

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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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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