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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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 administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
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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