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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

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
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Leadership Mountain Weather
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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

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