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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

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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years

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