Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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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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Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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