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Warren G. Bennis

Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
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
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble

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