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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

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
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
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
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.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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

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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