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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

Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment

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