Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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