The manager administers; the leader innovates.
WARREN G. BENNISDon’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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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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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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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Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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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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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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