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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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
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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Dream People Reality
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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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Leader People Together
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People

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