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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

Warren G. Bennis

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
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
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon 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
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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

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