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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

Warren G. Bennis

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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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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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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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Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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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The manager administers the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
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Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.
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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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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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