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

Warren G. Bennis

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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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Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
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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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If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, How clear is the metaphor?
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All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
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Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
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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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The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
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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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If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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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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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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I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.
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First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
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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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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
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