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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Warren G. Bennis

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Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,' he wrote. They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder.
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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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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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The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.
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Don't over-react to the trouble makers.
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