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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.

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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational

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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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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