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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People

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