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

Warren G. Bennis

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 manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
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
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
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

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