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

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
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
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace

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