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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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That is the key challenge facing management today change is the only constant.
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Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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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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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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The manager has a short-range view the leader has a long-range perspective.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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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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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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To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on 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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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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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
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Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.
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