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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

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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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People Reality Vision
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership

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