This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
WARREN G. BENNISEmbrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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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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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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