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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
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
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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