Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
WARREN G. BENNISWhat 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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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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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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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