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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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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Crucible Political Powerful
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World

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