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Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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

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