Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
WARREN G. BENNISSuccess in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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