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

Warren G. Bennis

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
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality

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