Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
WARREN G. BENNISCompanies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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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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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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