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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

Warren G. Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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 wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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Errors Knowing Worry
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
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
If you’re the leader, you’ve got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies – that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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Ego Give Up Leader
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as “a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures.”
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Crucible Political Powerful
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning

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