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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
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A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
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Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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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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The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
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Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
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