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

Warren G. Bennis

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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

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