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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.

Warren G. Bennis

That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing

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