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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

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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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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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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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
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People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.
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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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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative 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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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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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 does things right the leader does the right thing.
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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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Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
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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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