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Warren G. Bennis

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Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.
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Understand the Gretzky Factor: Cultivate an instinct, a touch, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the puck is now and where it will be soon.
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Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, variance sensors who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.
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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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Successful leaders are great askers
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Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
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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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Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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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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Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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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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People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.
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Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
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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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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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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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