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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want

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