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.
WARREN G. BENNISIn great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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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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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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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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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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