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

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
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Successful 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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Character Moving Successful
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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

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