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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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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Colored Sculley Time Water
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
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

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