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Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
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
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
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Hero Problem Reality
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
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

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