This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
WARREN G. BENNISGreat things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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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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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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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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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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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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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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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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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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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