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

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
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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

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