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

Warren G. Bennis

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble

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