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

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
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 leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
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.
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Opportunity Optimistic People

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