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

Warren G. Bennis

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
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
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
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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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Ideas Leadership Want
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

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