In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
WARREN G. BENNISWho 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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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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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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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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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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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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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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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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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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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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