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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable

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