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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.”

Warren G. Bennis

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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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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Hospitality Leadership Vision
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World

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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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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