Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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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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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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