It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
WARREN G. BENNISCreate a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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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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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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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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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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