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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
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Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, variance sensors who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.
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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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