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Warren G. Bennis

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If great teams don't have an enemy, they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, you can't have a war without one.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
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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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Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.
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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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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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Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
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The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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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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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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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 most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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