Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
WARREN G. BENNISSomeone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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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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Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Successful leaders are great askers
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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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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