Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
WARREN G. BENNISJust as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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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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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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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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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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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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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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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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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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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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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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