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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

Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
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
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
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
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.
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Filled Response Supervisor Workplace
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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