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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

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Followers Leadership Telling Truth
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
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Cards Leadership Servant Tables
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Being Leader Leadership Manager
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
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance Leadership Music
Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Dream People Reality
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
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
Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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Organization Program Trying
Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future… I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches… facilitate learning.
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Certain Coaching Leader
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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Created Iron Moment Necessity Something
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
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
One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Mistake More Nothing Worst
Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Expectations People Realistic

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