Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
WARREN G. BENNISFollowers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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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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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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