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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

Warren G. Bennis

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
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
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying

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