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Management:
Integrity may be difficult to define, but what constitutes a lack of integrity of such seriousness as to disqualify a person for a managerial position is not.
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287 |
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Management:
Management should not appoint anyone who considers intelligence more important than integrity. This is immaturity – and usually incurable.
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287 |
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Management:
Character is not something managers can acquire; if they do not bring it to the job, they will never have it.
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287 |
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Management:
Effective leadership doesn’t depend on charisma. Indeed, charisma may become the undoing of leaders. It may make them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
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289 |
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Management:
…effective leaders are painfully aware that they are not in control of the universe.
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289 |
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Management:
…the effective leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
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290 |
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Management:
An effective leader knows that the ultimate task of leadership is to create human energies and human vision.
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290 |
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Management:
…the only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.
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290 |
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Management:
To trust a leader, it is not necessary to like him. Nor is it necessary to agree with him. Trust is the conviction that the leader means what he says. It is a belief in integrity.
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290 |
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Management:
Few things can do as much damage as right decisions to wrong problems.
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