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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
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader

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