Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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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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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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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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