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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.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking

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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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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