Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
WARREN G. BENNISPeople who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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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 are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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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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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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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.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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