Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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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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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