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

Warren G. Bennis

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
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 leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

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