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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

Warren G. Bennis

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking

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