Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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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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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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If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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