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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

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
The leader…is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
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Creators Ideas Inspirational Leader
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
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Character Expediency Judgment
That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.
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Challenges Keys Today
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Always Dreamer People Pragmatic Soul
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplishment Believe Inspirational
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Inspire Purpose Vision
Understand the “Gretzky Factor”: Cultivate an instinct, a “touch”, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the “puck” is now and where it will be soon.
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Country Instinct Puck Soon
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Combination Followers Tells Unbeatable
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Differences Knowledge Learning
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Business Failure Leadership
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Management World
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

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