The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
WARREN G. BENNISEmbrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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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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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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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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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.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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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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