Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
WARREN G. BENNISLeaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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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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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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