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

Warren G. Bennis

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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
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
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
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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Importance Knows Leader
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management

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