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

Warren G. Bennis

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
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
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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Balance Groups Important
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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 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 must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise

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