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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

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
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

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