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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Think 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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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
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
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Knows Materials Raw Want
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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