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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

Warren G. Bennis

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
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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Leadership Mountain Weather
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
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Character Moving Successful
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills

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