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If you want to become a great leader, serve the people you lead. Make their success your success.
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If you desire to have a great inner circle, then start developing people. Only by raising up leaders and inviting them to pursue the vision with you will you achieve big things.
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Every time you develop people and help them become leaders, you not only gain their ability and put their horsepower to use in the organization, but you also engage the abilities of everyone they lead.
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Few things are worse than the teacher who is unteachable. As a leader, you will reproduce what you are.
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The leadership journey has the potential to take individuals through a lifelong process in three phases: learn, earn, return.
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Every organization for which people work is a trust. If you’re the leader, you cannot make decisions with only you and your personal interests in mind.
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You can never arrive – you can only strive to get better. That is the mind-set you must bring to every day of your leadership.
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Any time a leader begins to believe his own press, he’s in trouble.
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…no leaders – no matter how long or how well they’ve led – are above the laws of leadership. They laws are like gravity. They apply to you whether or not you believe in them.
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Leadership should always be about others, not about the leader.
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