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

Warren G. Bennis

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
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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Retirement Teacher Teaching
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader

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