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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

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
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

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