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The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

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