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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Warren G. Bennis

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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Knows Materials Raw Want
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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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Leadership Running Thinking
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

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