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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
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
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
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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