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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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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Demand Development Moving
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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

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