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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

Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
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
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness

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