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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

The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
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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Leaders People Roles
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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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Leadership Running Thinking
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable

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.

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