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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.

Warren G. Bennis

Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
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
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
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
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
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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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Ideas People Standing
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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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Dream People Reality
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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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Leaders People Roles
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands

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