Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
WARREN G. BENNISAt 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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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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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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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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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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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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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