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

Warren G. Bennis

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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Groups Jobs People
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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Iron Leadership Motivational
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
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
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Born Future Leaders Leadership
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
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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Retirement Teacher Teaching
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Blind Discipline Success
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
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
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire

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

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