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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
WARREN G. BENNIS

People Reality Vision
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Ideas People Standing
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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Initiate Leadership Power Translation Wise
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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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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Individual Possibly Real Self Something Thinking
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People

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