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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Leadership
Capacity
Reality
Translate
Vision
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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Leader
Ask
Why
Manager
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Challenges
Leader
Status Quo
Accepts
Manager
Quo
Status
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Failing
Organizations
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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Information
Profound
Difference
Meaning
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Horizon
Eyes
Leaders
Line
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Learning
Success
Management
World
Changing
Fast
Requires
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Trust
Business
Trust Work Business
Possible
Organizations
Makes
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
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Leader
Perspective
Manager
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Eye
Horizon
Leader
His
Line
Manager
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Managers
People
Right Thing
Thing
Do The Right Thing The Right Thing
Do The Right Thing The Right Thing Who
Who
Do The Right Thing
Leaders
Right
The Right Thing
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Dance
Leadership
Heard
Forms
Encourage
Organizations
Leaders
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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Accomplish
Great Things
Great Believe People
Talented
Talented People
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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Blog
Editor
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
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Good
Periphery
Heart People Feel
Good Heart People
Leaders
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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Companies
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Change Best Always
Expect
Leaders
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Compelling
Reality
Translate
Vision
Create
Place
New Place
Takes
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Becoming
Difficult
Leader
Simple
Yourself
Also
Precisely
Synonymous
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Importance
Fearlessly
Leaders
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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Complexity
Courses
Management
Understood
Specialized
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Dance
Environment
Create
Flourish
Sing
Ways
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Becoming
Integrated
Life Learning Your
Charge
Sine
Taking
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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Borrowed
Fitting
Ideas
Standing
Content
Fitting In
Instead
Invent
Reinvent
Secondhand
Themselves
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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Leadership
Inventing
Mit
Experiences
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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Application
Brilliant
Management
Principles
Theory
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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Prudence
Best Business Learning
Option
Indeed
Mushroom
Utilize
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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Credit
Claim
Educators
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Impart
Management
Variety
Applied
Conceived
Originally
Primary
Primary Goal
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A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
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Great Team
Leader
Millions
Column
Creates
Great Director
Readers
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Appropriate
Balance
Claims
Competing
Consideration
Deserve
Groups
Stakeholders
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
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Teacher
Excellence
Exemplary
Found
Lessons
Mediocrity
Ordinary
Profound
Everywhere
Original
Insights
Studying
Truly
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Future
Dog
Equipment
Touching
Two
Will
Man
Only
Feed
Employees
Factory
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Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.
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Finance
Capacity
Elements
Management
Marketing
Operations
Organizational
Essential
Essential Elements
Programs
Link
Provide
Two-Year
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Community
Endeavor
Face To Face
Humans
Evolved
Hundreds Of Thousands
Ideal
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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Cutting
Influence
Window
In The End
Lawn
Seemed
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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Leadership
Concern
Demand
Development
Heavy
Phenomenon
Move On
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Leadership
Born
Certain
Charismatic
Dangerous
Made
Myth
Nonsense
Most
Opposite
True
Simply
Either
Fact
Genetic
In Fact
Leaders
Qualities
Rather
Than
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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Administrators
Faculty
Management
Promise
At Least One
Religions
Education Programs
Elective
Every Chance
Programs
More And More
Nowadays
Required
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