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

Warren G. Bennis

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
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 wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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

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