Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
WARREN G. BENNISPeople in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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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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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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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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At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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