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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

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
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
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
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
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
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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Leader Leadership Makers
You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Knows Materials Raw Want
Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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Allegiances Fate Organization Years
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
Successful leaders are great askers
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Leader Problem Successful
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
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
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
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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