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Organizations foolishly talk themselves into hiring people with great talent, but not the right talent.
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200 |
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Being willing to see people’s potential is especially important in smaller, scrappier organizations.
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237 |
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Harvest a wide range of insights from your own experience. Think about all the talents an organization needs to succeed. Look for winners in each dimension.
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241 |
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…exceptional organizations all have cultures in which the leaders provide cover from above and the people on the ground look out for each other.
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9 |
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Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture.
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16 |
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When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers.
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16 |
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In small organizations, where we able to know everyone, it is much easier for us to do the work necessary to look after them.
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144 |
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The more energy is transferred from the top… to those who are actually doing the job… the more powerful the organization and the more powerful the leader.
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184 |
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…every leader of every organization [must] do the little things necessary to protect their people. But first, they have to admit that they are at the root of the problem.
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230 |
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If the leaders of organizations give their people something to believe in, if they offer their people a challenge that outsizes their resources but not their intellect, people will give everything they’ve got to solve the problem.
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