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Leadership 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.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
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
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
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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
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
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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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
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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Create Enemy Team War

Leadership 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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Leadership 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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