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

Warren G. Bennis

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader

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