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

Warren G. Bennis

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
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
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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

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

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