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

Warren G. Bennis

Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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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Dream People Reality
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Organization Program Trying
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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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Balance Groups Important
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
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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Demand Development Moving
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision

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