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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

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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose 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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
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
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
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
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace

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