The manager administers; the leader innovates.
WARREN G. BENNISThink of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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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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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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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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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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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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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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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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If 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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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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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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