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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

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Opportunity Optimistic People
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
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
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
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People

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