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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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

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