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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

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth

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