Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
WARREN G. BENNISCompanies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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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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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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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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