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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

Warren G. Bennis

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
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
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
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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Demand Development Moving
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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.
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Leaders People Roles
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People

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