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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.

Warren G. Bennis

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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
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Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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