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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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 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
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers

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