Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
WARREN G. BENNISOrganizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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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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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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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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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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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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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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