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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

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Conflict Leadership Opportunity
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Eye Horizon Leadership
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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Different Government Onions
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Leader Management People

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

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