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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's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
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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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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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Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.
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Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
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Don't over-react to the trouble makers.
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All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
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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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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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See the long view: By all means plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses but always keep the eventual harvest in mind.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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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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