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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

Warren G. Bennis

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
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
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment

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