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

Warren G. Bennis

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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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