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Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.

Warren G. Bennis

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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful

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