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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Warren G. Bennis

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
WARREN G. BENNIS

Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
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
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions

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