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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Warren G. Bennis

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
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
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure 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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership Vision

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