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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

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
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
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
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
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
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision

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