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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

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
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
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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

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