The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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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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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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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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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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