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.
Warren G. Bennis
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
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