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Excellence The Leadership50
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bedrock.
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1. Leaders serve.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders
live to serve. Period.
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The Basic Mechanism.
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2. Leadership Is a Mutual Discovery Process.
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia
Ward BiedermanGroups become great only when
everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is
free to do his or her absolute best.The best
thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to
allow its members to discover their greatness.
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Leaders Mt Everest Testfree to do his or
her absolute best allow its members to
discover their greatness.
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The Leadership Types.
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3. Great Leaders on White Horses Are Important
but Great Talent Developers (Type I Leadership)
are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform
Over the Long Haul.
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Whoops Jack didnt have a vision!
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4. But There Are Times When the visionary
Type (Type II Leadership) Matters!
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A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon
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5. Find the Businesspeople! (Type III
Leadership)
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I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)
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6. All Organizations Need the Golden Leadership
Triangle.
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The Golden Leadership Triangle (1) Talent
Fanatic (2) Visionary (3) Inspired Profit
Mechanic.
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7. Leadership Mantra 1 IT ALL DEPENDS!
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Renaissance Men are a snare, a myth, a
delusion!
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8. The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.
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The Leadership Dance.
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9. Leaders SHOW UP!
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A body can pretend to care, but they cant
pretend to be there. Texas Bix Bender
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10. Leaders LOVE the MESS!
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If things seem under control, youre just not
going fast enough. Mario Andretti
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11. Leaders DO!
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We have a strategic plan. Its called doing
things. Herb Kelleher
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12. Leaders Re-do.
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Phil Crosby is an idiot!
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13. BUT Leaders Know When to Wait.
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Tex Schramm The too hard box!
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14. Leaders Are Optimists.
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Hackneyed but none the less true LEADERS SEE
CUPS AS HALF FULL.
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Half-full Cups Ronald Reagan radiated an
almost transcendent happiness. Lou Cannon
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15. Leaders FOCUS!
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Dennis, you need a To-dont List !
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I used to have a rule for myself that at any
point in time I wanted to have in mind as it so
happens, also in writing, on a little card I
carried around with me the three big things I
was trying to get done. Three. Not two. Not
four. Not five.Not ten.Three. Richard
Haass, The Power to Persuade
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The one thing you need to know about
sustained individual success Discover what you
dont like doing and stop doing it.
Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to
Know
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16. Leaders Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals About
Whats Important!
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Really Important Stuff Rogers Rule of Three!
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Danger S.I.O. (Strategic Initiative Overload)
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If It Aint Broke Break It.
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17. Leaders FORGET!/Leaders DESTROY!
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ForgetgtLearnThe problem is never how to get
new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how
to get the old ones out. Dee Hock
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I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs
seeking escape from life within huge corporate
structures, How do I build a small firm for
myself? The answer seems obvious Buy a very
large one and just wait. Paul Ormerod, Why
Most Things Fail Evolution, Extinction and
Economics
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18. BUT Leaders Have to Deliver, So They Worry
About Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater.

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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Dont, Just
Plain Damned.Subtitle in the chapter, Own Up
to the Great Paradox Success Is the Product of
Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,
Liberation Management (1992)
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19. Leaders HONOR THE USURPERS.
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Saviors-in-WaitingDisgruntled
CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue
EmployeesFringe SuppliersSource Wayne Burkan,
Wide Angle Vision
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20. Leaders Make Lots of Mistakes and MAKE NO
BONES ABOUT IT!
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Fail faster. Succeed sooner.David Kelley/IDEO
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21. Leaders Make BIG MISTAKES!
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.Phil Daniels
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Create.
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22. Leaders Know that THERES MORE TO LIFE THAN
LINE EXTENSIONS. Leaders Love to CREATE NEW
MARKETS.
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Acquisitions are about buying market share. Our
challenge is to create markets. There is a big
difference. Peter Job, CEO, Reuters

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23. Leaders Make Their Mark / Leaders Do
Stuff That Matters
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I never, ever thought of myself as a
businessman. I was interested in creating things
I would be proud of. Richard Branson
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24. Leaders Push Their Organizations W-a-y Up
the Value-added Chain.
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55B
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Big Browns New Bag UPS Aims to Be the Traffic
Manager for Corporate America Headline/BW/2004
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Every project we undertake starts with the same
question How can we do what has never been done
before? Stuart Hornery, Lend Lease
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25. Leaders Push Past Service Transactions to
Scintillating Experiences.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as
services are from goods. Joe Pine Jim
Gilmore, The Experience Economy Work Is Theatre
Every Business a Stage
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Experience Rebel Lifestyle!What we sell is
the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress
in black leather, ride through small towns and
have people be afraid of him.Harley exec,
quoted in Results-Based Leadership
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26. Leaders LOVE the New Technology!
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Power Tools For Power Strategies
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27. Needed? Type IV Leadership Technology
Dreamer-True Believer
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The Golden Leadership Quadrangle (1) Talent
Fanatic (2) Visionary (3) Inspired Profit
Mechanic (4) Technology Dreamer-True Believer.
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Talent.
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28. Leaders DO TALENT!
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Brand Talent.
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Leaders do people. Period. Anon.
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29. When It Comes to TALENT Leaders Always Go
Berserk!
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From 1, 2 or youre out JW to Best
Talent in each industry segment to build best
proprietary intangibles EMSource Ed
Michaels, War for Talent
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30. Leaders Listen. Leaders Consult.
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The One line of code Theorem All we-they-me
want is (1) to be consulted, (2) to be taken
seriously, (3) a tiny show of appreciation
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Passion.
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31. Leaders Sell PASSION!
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People want to be part of something larger than
themselves. They want to be part of something
theyre really proud of, that theyll fight for,
sacrifice for , trust. Howard Schultz,
Starbucks (IBD/09.05)
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Gary Hamel Create a cause, not a business.
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32. Leaders Know ENTHUSIASM BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!
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BZ I am a Dispenser of Enthusiasm!
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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33. Leaders Are in a Hurry
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We dont sell insurance anymore. We sell speed.
Peter Lewis, Progressive
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Metabolic Management
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34. Leaders Focus on the SOFT STUFF!
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Hard is soft. Soft Is hard.
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The Job of Leading.
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35. Leaders Know Its ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.
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If you dont LOVE SALES find another life.
(Dont pretend youre a leader.)
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36. Leaders LOVE POLITICS.
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If you dont LOVE POLITICS find another life.
(Dont pretend youre a leader.)
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All success is a Matter of implementation. All
implementation is a matter of politics.
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37. But Leaders Also Break a Lot of China.
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Characteristics of the Also ransMinimize
riskRespect the chain of commandSupport the
bossMake budgetFortune, Most Admired
Global Corporations
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38. Leaders Give RESPECT!
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• It was much later that I realized Dads secret.
  He gained respect by giving it. He talked and
  listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring
  Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked
  and listened to a bishop or a college president.
  He was seriously interested in who you were and
  what you had to say.
• Source Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

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39. Leaders Say Thank You.
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The deepest human need is the need to be
appreciated.William James
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40. Leaders Are Curious.
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The Three Most Important Letters WHY?
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41. Leadership Is a Performance.
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It is necessary for the President to be the
nations No. 1 actor.FDR
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42. Leaders Are The Brand
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You must be the change you wish to see in the
world.Gandhi
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Its always showtime. David DAlessandro,
Career Warfare
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43. Leaders Have a GREAT STORY!
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A key perhaps the key to leadership is
the effective communication of a story.Howard
Gardner Leading Minds An Anatomy of Leadership
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Leader Job 1Paint Portraits of Excellence!
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Introspection.
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44. Leaders Enjoy Leading.
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Tom, you left out one thing
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45. Leaders LAUGH!
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46. Leaders KNOW THEMSELVES.
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To develop others, start with yourself.
Marshall Goldsmith
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Being aware of yourself and how you affect
everyone around you is what distinguishes a
superior leader. Edie Seashore (Strategy
Business 45)
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How can a high-level leader like _____ be so out
of touch with the truth about himself? Its more
common than you would imagine. In fact, the
higher up the ladder a leader climbs, the less
accurate his self-assessment is likely to be. The
problem is an acute lack of feedback especially
on people issues. Daniel Goleman (et al.), The
New Leaders
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47. But Leaders have MENTORS.
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Upon having the Leadership Mantle placed upon
ones head, he/she shall never hear the
unvarnished truth again! (Therefore, she/he
needs one faithful compatriot to lay it on with
no jelly.)
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The End Game.
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48. Leaders are RELENTLESS.
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Relentless One of my superstitions had always
been when I started to go anywhere or to do
anything, not to turn back , or stop, until the
thing intended was accomplished. Grant
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49. Leaders ???
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LEADERS NEED TO BE THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR ON
ROLLER BLADES.
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50. LeadersRelentlessly Pursue Excellence
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Excellence can be obtained if you ... care
more than others think is wise ... risk
more than others think is safe ... dream
more than others think is practical ...
expect more than others think is
possible. Source Anon. (Posted _at_ tompeters.com
by K.Sriram, November 27, 2006 117 AM)
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Leadership is the PROCESS of ENGAGING PEOPLE in
CREATING a LEGACY of EXCELLENCE.