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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

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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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Character Moving Successful
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important

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