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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Warren G. Bennis

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
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 administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity

Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.

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