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

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People

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