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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Warren G. Bennis

That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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