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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
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
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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Create Enemy Team War
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance Knows Leader
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables

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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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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