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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

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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

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