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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.

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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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