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The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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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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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Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.
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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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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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Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.
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Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
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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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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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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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Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.
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Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
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Understand the Pygmalion Effect: Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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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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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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The future has no shelf life
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