Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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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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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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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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