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That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Warren G. Bennis

The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
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
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders 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
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables

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