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Warren G. Bennis

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
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
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
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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

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