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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

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
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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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Certain Coaching Leader
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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Different Government Onions

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