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Someone 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.

Warren G. Bennis

Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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
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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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
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
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision

Someone 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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Someone 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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