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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.

Warren G. Bennis

Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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
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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Ego Give Up Leader
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
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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Retirement Teacher Teaching
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

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