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.
WARREN G. BENNISOur tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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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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If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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