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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
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
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality

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