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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

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want

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