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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Warren G. Bennis

This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success

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