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Warren G. Bennis

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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions

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