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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
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
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
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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

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