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.
WARREN G. BENNISIf knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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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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