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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
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
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

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