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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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Believe Dream Leadership
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
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
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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
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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Importance Knows Leader
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something

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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