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

Warren G. Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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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Demand Development Moving
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
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust

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