Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
WARREN G. BENNISThere is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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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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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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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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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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