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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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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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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 has a short-range view the leader has a long-range perspective.
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That is the key challenge facing management today change is the only constant.
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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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If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.
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The manager does things right the leader does the right thing.
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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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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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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
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The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why.
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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
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Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
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Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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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