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

Warren G. Bennis

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
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

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