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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

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational Leadership
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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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