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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.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
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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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
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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Ideas People Standing
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching

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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