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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Warren G. Bennis

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
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
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
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
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
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
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

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