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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Warren G. Bennis

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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Character Moving Successful
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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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Certain Coaching Leader
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
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
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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Opportunity Optimistic People
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality

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