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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
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
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
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
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

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