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The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make QUOTES

1 " A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. "

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2 " Rules are made to be broken, principles are not. The best fighter pilot can change the rules of engagement, but he dare not violate the principles of gravity! "

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3 " Humility is the key to finishing well and passing the torch on to our successors. "

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4 " Leadership is seeing the consequences of our actions further in the future than those around us can. "

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5 " The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt "

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6 " Information is giving out; communication is getting through. "

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7 " In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped, to deal with a world that no longer exists. "

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8 " I looked for a man among them who would … stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none” (Ezek. 22:30). "

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9 " The Royal Bank Letter, a Canadian publication, made this observation: A prophetic expert on the subject of tyranny through ignorance, Adolf Hitler, wrote inMein Kampf that propaganda, to be effective, must operate on the level of the “most stupid” members of society. Hitler, who loathed universal education, knew that ignorance goes hand-in-hand with gullibility. He realized that he could best “work his wicked will,” as Winston Churchill put it, when his audience was kept in the dark. "

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10 " Like love, leadership continued to be something everyone knew existed but nobody could define. "

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11 " Effective leaders see themselves at the bottom of an inverted pyramid. "

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12 " Delegation is about private ownership of one’s work, and in the communist system, there simply was no private ownership. "

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13 " leaders lead as they were led. "

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14 " Servant leadership is about caring for others more than for ourselves. It is about compassion for everyone who serves the group. It enriches everyone, not just those at the top. Servant leadership requires us to sit and weep with those who weep within our organizations. It requires getting down and dirty when hard work has to be done. There is nothing in my organization that anyone does that I should not be willing to do myself if it promotes the good of us all. "

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