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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Warren G. Bennis

Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul

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