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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

The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables

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