Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
WARREN G. BENNISGreat groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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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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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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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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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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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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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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