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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

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
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
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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
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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Ideas People Standing
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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