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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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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Create Enemy Team War
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality

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