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Sooner or later, a successful startup with face competition from fast followers.
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111 |
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Today successful companies face immediate pressure from new competitors, fast followers, and scrappy startups.
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252 |
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Wise bosses also enlist followers as teachers.
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93 |
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Many organizations impose such rigid, legalistic, inhuman, and onerous evaluation procedures that these chores distract bosses from tending to their followers in more important ways.
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114 |
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…the best bosses and followers do what they propose.
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151 |
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…great bosses help followers feel powerful rather than powerless – especially during rough times.
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189 |
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The worst bosses not only make followers feel vulnerable and weak during hard times, they also demean, humiliate, and piss them off.
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191 |
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…common features of [assholes’] jobs – power, performance pressure, and exhaustion – provoke bosses to leave followers feeling disrespected, emotionally damaged, and de-energized.
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210 |
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The best [bosses] take seriously how others judge them – and accept the uncomfortable fact that followers’ perceptions are often more valid than their own.
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212 |
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If you are a boss with a history of treating followers with dignity and have built up a lot of ‘love points,’ your people will probably forgive you if you get nasty now and then…
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227 |
