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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.

Warren G. Bennis

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
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
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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

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