Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
WARREN G. BENNISSuccessful leaders are great askers
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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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