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

Warren G. Bennis

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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
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
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
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
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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