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

Warren G. Bennis

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
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 most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
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
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
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
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People

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