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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

Warren G. Bennis

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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 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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
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
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 does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking

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