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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Warren G. Bennis

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision

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