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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Warren G. Bennis

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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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Jobs Opportunity Years
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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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Leader People Together
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills

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