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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Warren G. Bennis

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Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.
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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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Possess the Nobel Factor: Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
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What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
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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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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
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Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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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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Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
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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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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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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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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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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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In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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