The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
WARREN G. BENNISCoaching 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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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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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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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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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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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