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

Warren G. Bennis

Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision

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