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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Warren G. Bennis

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
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
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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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Leader People Together
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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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Leadership Running Thinking

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