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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Warren G. Bennis

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
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
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
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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