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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

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders 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
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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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War

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