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

Warren G. Bennis

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there’s any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it’s surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that’s constant is change.
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Jazz Living Someone Surprise World
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others’ judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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Judgment Keys Principle Teaching
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
Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Define Hard Knows Leadership
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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Commitment Knowledge Leader Wisdom
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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Certain Coaching Leader
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
If great teams don’t have an “enemy,” they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, “you can’t have a war without one.”
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Create Enemy Team War
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader

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

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