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

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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
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
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
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
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
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
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 leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
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
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision

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