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That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Don't over-react to the trouble makers.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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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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Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.
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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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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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The manager asks how and when the leader asks what and why.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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