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

Warren G. Bennis

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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 must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites

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