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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

The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst

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