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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren G. Bennis

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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Errors Knowing Worry
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
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
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader

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