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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.

Warren G. Bennis

Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
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
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager

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