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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren G. Bennis

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The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
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People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.
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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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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
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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.
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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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Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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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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Possess the Nobel Factor: Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
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Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
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Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.
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All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.
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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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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
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Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
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That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.
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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations
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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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Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
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