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Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

Warren G. Bennis

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The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
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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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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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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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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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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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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.
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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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