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

Warren G. Bennis

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
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Listening to the inner voice – trusting the inner voice – is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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Important Listening Voice
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Ideas Leadership Want
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Honesty Leadership Simple
Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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Bridges Groups Islands
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
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Boss Inspirational 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
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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People Reality Vision
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management

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