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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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