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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

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
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 Enemy Team War
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

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