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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management

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