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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

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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Character Moving Successful
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
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

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