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

Warren G. Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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 leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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