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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People

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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