Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
WARREN G. BENNISThere is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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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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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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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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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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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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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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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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