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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.

Warren G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
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
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
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
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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World

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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