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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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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership

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