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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.”

Warren G. Bennis

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying

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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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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