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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

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
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
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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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