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

Warren G. Bennis

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
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
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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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning

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