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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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  Running, Views, Should Have

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• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

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  Ideas, People, Standing Out

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

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  Leadership, Vision, Hospitality

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books

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• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Boss

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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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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  Inspirational, Eye, Leader

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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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  Responsibility, Would Be, Followers

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.390, John Wiley & Sons

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• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

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  Becoming, Management, Integrated

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• Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

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  Pygmalion, People, Leader

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• All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

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  Thinking, Leader, Information

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• Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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  Dream, Reality, People

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• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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  Leadership, Business, Failure

  "Wisdom, Honor & Hope: The Inner Path to True Greatness". Book by Cecil O. Kemp, Jr., May 1, 2000.

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• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Differences

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• Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

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  Islands, Bridges, Groups

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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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  New Experiences, Leader, Quality

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• One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

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  Mistake, Worst

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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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  Vision, Painting, Herds

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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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  Team, Organization, Support

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• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

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  Inspirational, Views, Long

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.209, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

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  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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  Leadership, Being A Leader, Managers

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

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  Leader, Coaching, Certain

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• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

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  World, Management

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• Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

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  Leadership, Believe, Unique

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.210, Basic Books

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• Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

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  Inspire, Vision, Purpose

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• Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

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  Government, Different, Onions

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