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Warren G. Bennis

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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
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Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.
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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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Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.
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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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In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
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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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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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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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