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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

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years

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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