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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

Warren G. Bennis

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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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Balance Groups Important
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

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