Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
WARREN G. BENNISManage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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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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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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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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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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