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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

Warren G. Bennis

Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision

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