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

Warren G. Bennis

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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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
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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Ideas People Standing
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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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Dream People Reality
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
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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