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…management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It’s about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so…
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In business today, leadership is the central force mobilizing people to create something that did not previously exist.
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Management ensures the stability and efficiency necessary to run today’s enterprise reliably. Leadership creates needed change to take advantage of new opportunities, to avoid serious threats, and to create and execute new strategies.
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…management and leadership are very different… both are essential to helping [organizations] win.
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…in most cases – especially when we are talking about more mature and larger organizations – sufficient leadership just isn’t there.
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Autonomy over task has long been critical to [people’s] ability to create. And good leaders (as opposed to competent ‘managers’) understand this in their bones.
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In the political and moral realm, you could almost define leadership as the effective painting of the pain shared by leader and people.
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Great leaders surround themselves with great blockers who love the game. You can count on this. Prepare for the person in a negotiation who loves the game.
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…because today’s primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.
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Being a leader in life takes practice – so practice! The possibilities for making new contacts and reaching out to others will grow and grow.
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