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

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
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
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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

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