Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
WARREN G. BENNISLeadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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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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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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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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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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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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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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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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