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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

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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
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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