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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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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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Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, variance sensors who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.
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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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A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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Successful leaders are great askers
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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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Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
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If great teams don't have an enemy, they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, you can't have a war without one.
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That is the key challenge facing management today change is the only constant.
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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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No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.
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All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.
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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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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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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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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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