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The art of good leadership is the ability to look beyond the growth plan and the willingness to act prudently when something is not ready or not right, even if it means slowing things down.
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080 |
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People want to be treated fairly and share in the wealth they helped produce in payment for the cost they bear to grow their companies.
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086 |
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Fast-growing companies with strong product, marketing and balance sheets… often neglect to give time and attention to leadership training or to actively nurturing their culture.
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177 |
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All growth is a leap in the dark. If you’re afraid of that, you’ll never do anything worthwhile.
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054 |
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Be open to change and the positive or negative effects it has on us. Why? Because that is how we learn and grow. The changes we make give us success or failure.
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003 |
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Try new techniques all of the time. Grow from the experience. The more you have learned, the more you have in your toolbox to try.
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015 |
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When an organization grows beyond its ability to fill its key seats with the right people, it has set itself up for a fall.
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021 |
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Public corporations face incessant pressure from the capital markets to grow as fast as possible, and we cannot deny this fact.
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054 |
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The greatest leaders do seek growth – growth in performance, growth in distinctive impact, growth in creativity, growth in people – but they do not succumb to growth that undermines long-term value.
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054 |
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…if a great company consistently grows revenues faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth, it will not simply stagnate; it will fail.
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056 |