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.
WARREN G. BENNISCreate 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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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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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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Something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It’s as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Leadership is like beauty – it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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.
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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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Every great group is an island… but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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