Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
WARREN G. BENNISThe manager administers; the leader innovates.
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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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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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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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