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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

Warren G. Bennis

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.
WARREN G. BENNIS

Retirement Teacher Teaching
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk

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