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Successful leaders are great askers

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

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