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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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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Herds Painting Vision
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Leaders People Roles
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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