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generalists are leaders. They live by the ideal that it’s better to have 1 percent of one hundred people’s efforts than 100 percent of their own.
Brad Sugars • Instant Team Building: How to Build and Sustain a Winning Team for Business Success (Instant Success Series)
But it’s a three-way battle between The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician.
Michael E. Gerber • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
An organization will be better equipped to identify and grapple with adaptive challenges if its people do not expect the CEO and other senior authorities to always have the answers.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
- Always know the answer to, “What are we optimizing for?”
- Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.
- Never ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself.
- Give away the credit. Take the blame.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: A Brief Guide to Leadership, and When to Value Feedback | James Clear
Who’s Responsible for Vision? Our hapless CEO is a good example of another recurring problem at high-tech companies: the question of who is responsible for the strategic vision. Is it the board of directors, the CEO, or the executive team? After six months on the job, Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM in 1993, was pressured to give his vision for IBM. He wa
... See moreMichael E. McGrath • Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
“I have always believed that if I could help someone get more of what’s important to him as a person, then everything else will take care of itself.
Charles H. Green • The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust
Leadership, at its best, is exactly that: teaching skills, attitudes, and goals (yes, goals are both defined and taught) to individuals who are part of your organization. Most things in life require good teaching—raising a family and educating children, running a company or sales team, or coaching athletes—so it’s unfortunate that more people don’t
... See moreCraig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
The key in any organization is for people to be transparent about what their Zone of Genius is, and then map all activities to the right people through an areas of responsibility list
Matt Mochary • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Chris Fussell, C. W. Goodyear, General Stanley McChrystal (Foreword)
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