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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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
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
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership

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