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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows 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
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
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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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership

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