Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
WARREN G. BENNISEmbrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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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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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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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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