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

Warren G. Bennis

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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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Ideas Leadership Want
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
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
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness

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