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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
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
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Needs People Vision
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Retirement Teacher Teaching
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching

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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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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