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

Warren G. Bennis

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

Bridges Groups Islands
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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

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