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Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Warren G. Bennis

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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