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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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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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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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While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
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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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If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.
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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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Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.
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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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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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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
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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 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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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.
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One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.
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In great groups, the right people always have the right job.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
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