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

Warren G. Bennis

Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
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
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership

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