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…people in business who simply accept conventional wisdom may reach the top of a bureaucratic organization, but they will never use their particular talents to their fullest.
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070 |
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Study, travel, people, work, play, reflection, all are sources of knowledge and understanding, but so, curiously, are mistakes.
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088 |
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The real role of the leader is to figure out how you make diverse people and elements work together. – John Sculley
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100 |
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No leaders sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders.
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106 |
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Leaders are, by definition, innovators. They do things other people have not done or dare not do. They do things in advance of other people. They make new things. They make old things new.
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135 |
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Leading through voice, inspiring through trust and empathy, does more than get people on your side. It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
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159 |
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In this service-intensive, information-intensive age, every organization’s primary resource is its people.
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174 |
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Only the most innovative organizations have begun truly to tap into their primary resource, their people, much less giving them the means to do what they are capable of doing.
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175 |
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…decades of experimental research have found… when people vent their feelings aggressively, they often feel worse, pump up their blood pressure, and make themselves even angrier.
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036 |
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When affluent people speak of the underprivileged, they rarely thank their lucky stars that they are privileged, let along consider that they might be overprivileged.
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060 |
