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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

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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