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

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
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
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
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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

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