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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.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
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
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
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
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership 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
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Character Credibility No Trust
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music

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