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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.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World

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