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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Certain Coaching Leader

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

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