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

Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills

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