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

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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
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

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