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

Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
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
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
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
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul

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