Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
WARREN G. BENNISAt 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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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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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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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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