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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Warren G. Bennis

Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years

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