Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
WARREN G. BENNISFollowers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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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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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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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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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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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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