Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
WARREN G. BENNISSuccessful 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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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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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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