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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.

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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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

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