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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.

Warren G. Bennis

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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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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