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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

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
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
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying

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