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Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

Warren G. Bennis

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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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Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, How clear is the metaphor?
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Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
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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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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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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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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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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
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Without character, there is no credibility and without credibility, there is no trust.
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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
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I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
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A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
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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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