Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
WARREN G. BENNISOrganizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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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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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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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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