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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.

Warren G. Bennis

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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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Balance Groups Important
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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Different Government Onions
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands

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