Successful leaders are great askers
WARREN G. BENNISOur tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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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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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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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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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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The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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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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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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