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.
WARREN G. BENNISThink of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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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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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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