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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
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
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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