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.
WARREN G. BENNISThose who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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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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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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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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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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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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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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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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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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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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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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