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

Warren G. Bennis

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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
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
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management

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