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They are adept at organizational politics: they know how to form autonomous divisions with separate profit and loss statements (P&Ls) and can shield controversial teams from corporate meddling.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
community leaders are natural influencers.
Leaders of Great Groups understand the power of rhetoric. They recruit people for crusades, not jobs.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
The best leaders promote people into leadership based on leadership potential, not on politics, seniority, credentials, or convenience.
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The true leaders in any organization are the people who others trust to do the right thing. It is apparent that they have in mind the best interests both of their organizations and of the team members with whom they’re working, not just their own.
Hale Dwoskin • The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being
Leaders of Great Groups inevitably have exquisite taste. They are not creators in the same sense that the others are. Rather, they are curators, whose job is not to make, but to choose. The ability to recognize excellence in others and their work may be the defining talent of leaders of Great Groups.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Such leaders understand very basic truths about human beings. They know that we long for meaning.