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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.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
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 are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble

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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