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The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Warren G. Bennis

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
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
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 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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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

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