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People 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.

Warren G. Bennis

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
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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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

People 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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