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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
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
This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple.
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Jobs Opportunity Years
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Firsts Judgment Leader
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 are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
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

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