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Successful leaders are great askers

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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Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.
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Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.
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All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
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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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If great teams don't have an enemy, they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, you can't have a war without one.
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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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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
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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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Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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The manager has a short-range view the leader has a long-range perspective.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
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Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.
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Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
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Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
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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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