Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
WARREN G. BENNISCompanies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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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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