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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

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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Leadership Mountain Weather
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure 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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music

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