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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
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
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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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Create Enemy Team War
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision

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