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

Warren G. Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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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Leaders People Roles
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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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking

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