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

Warren G. Bennis

Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
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
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.

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