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“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”

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Author:Jeff Weiner
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“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

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Author:Steve Jobs
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“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.”

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Author:Lou Gerstner
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“Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?”

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Author:Bill Taylor
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“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

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Author:Theodore Hesburgh
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

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Book:The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible
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“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

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Author:Audre Lorde
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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

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Book:Chronicles of the Cross Collection
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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams
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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton
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“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

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Book:My American Journey
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“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

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Author:Norman Schwarzkopf
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

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Author:Herbert Bayard Swope
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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

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Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

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Author:William Arthur Ward
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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Author:Jack Welch
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“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

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Author:Jim Rohn
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“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

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Author:Andrew Carnegie
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“My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.”

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Author:Craig Newmark
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“...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
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