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

Warren G. Bennis

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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
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
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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

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