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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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 are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
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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Allegiances Fate Organization Years

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