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Being charismatic doesn’t make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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What most people want in a leader is something that’s very difficult to find: we want someone who listens.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another… so they follow.
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Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.
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No one gives you permission to or approval or a permit to lead. You can just do it. The only one who can say no is you.
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Waiting doesn’t pay. Saying yes does.
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The very nature of leadership is that you’re not doing what’s been done before. If you were, you’d be following, not leading.
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You will be far more successful aspiring to be the leader you want to be and playing to your strengths than trying to live up to some other ideal.
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The rising stars on your team may not be clamoring for your attention, but if you help them to dream bigger and become more capable leaders, you’ll be amazed at how much more your team can do as a whole.
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