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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Something 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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Dream People Reality
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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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Balance Groups Important
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
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
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today

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