You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
WARREN G. BENNISThat is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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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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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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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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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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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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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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