Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
WARREN G. BENNISSomething 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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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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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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