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All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

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Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
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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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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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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
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Understand the Gretzky Factor: Cultivate an instinct, a touch, call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the puck is now and where it will be soon.
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That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.
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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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Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
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Organizations should try to find out if their learning programs actually work.
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The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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The manager accepts the status quo the leader challenges it.
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Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
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Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
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One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.
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