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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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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Retirement Teacher Teaching
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership

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