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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

The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
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
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not.
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Characteristics Important Leader Truth Willingness
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Being Ideas Knowing Yourself
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Balance Groups Important

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