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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.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates.
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Inspirational Leader Leadership Management
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
At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, “How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?”
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Colored Sculley Time Water
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
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
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
Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an “enemy.”
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Backward Enemy Ideas Themselves Winning
Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Great Groups Rewards Work
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Fall Risk Wire
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
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Inspirational Leadership People
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
Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Dream Successful Thinking
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
Don’t over-react to the trouble makers.
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Makers Over React Trouble

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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