That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
WARREN G. BENNISLeadership 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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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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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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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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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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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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