The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
WARREN G. BENNISAlmost 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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Successful leaders are great askers
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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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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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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