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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
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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Errors Knowing Worry
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness

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