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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst

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