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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

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking

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