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

Warren G. Bennis

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
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
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
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
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership

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