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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
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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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
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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Certain Coaching Leader
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise

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