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

Warren G. Bennis

That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth

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

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