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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

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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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