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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Warren G. Bennis

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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
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

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