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The manager administers the leader innovates.

Warren G. Bennis

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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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The manager has his eye on the bottom line the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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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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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
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Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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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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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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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In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
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Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.
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The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
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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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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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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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