Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
The actions taken are all that matters. Some of those actions will be helpful, others will not, but it is always important to act rather than react. The determination to see through the process of team-building is everything. What is essential in every company, organization, or team is a knowledge of your business. Skill, not luck, is what is deman
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The four things are insight, objectivity, courage, and empathy, all wrapped up in a methodology unique to you, governed by a dismissive perspective about your own future—a disregard for how you will survive.
David C. Baker, Emily Mills, • Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
A good leader must be a great role model!
As a leader, your job is to model the right behaviors. People pay attention to how you talk, the decisions you make, and most of all, how you treat other people—especially strangers.
If you want to be a great role model, you must master these skills:
1. Learn to control your anger, especially in public.
2. Lear
... See moreHe understood people. He wouldn’t treat two players the same. Blanket treatment isn’t the best way to treat a team. Everyone’s different, everyone takes advice differently. Everyone takes criticism differently. And that’s why the leader or manager needs to know the individuals. This was one of Sir Alex Ferguson’s greatest traits. He knew everything
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