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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

At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People

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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