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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
Warren G. Bennis
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More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
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The manager administers the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.
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The manager does things right the leader does the right thing.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,' he wrote. They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder.
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See the long view: By all means plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses but always keep the eventual harvest in mind.
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The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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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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That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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