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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.”

Warren G. Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
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
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
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
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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 keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality

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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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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