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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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

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