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

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
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
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality

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