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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.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership

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