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Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

Warren G. Bennis

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
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
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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Leaders People Roles
Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Atmosphere Errors Risk
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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Hospitality Leadership World
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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Advice Lasts Leader
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
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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Ideas People Standing

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