Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
WARREN G. BENNISSuccess in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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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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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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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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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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