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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

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
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
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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Leadership Running Thinking
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
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
That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Future Leader Leadership Opposites
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Follower Leadership Skills
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Hospitality Leadership 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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Herds Painting Vision
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment

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.

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