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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision

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