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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 are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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

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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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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