Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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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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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Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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