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

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands

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