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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

Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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Leader People Together
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
The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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Iron Leadership Motivational
Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Achieve Great People Things
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
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
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Demand Development Moving
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
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

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