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…a manager must be able to do four activities extremely well: select a person, set expectations, motivate the person and develop them.
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Healthy companies need strong bonds to develop between each manager and each employee.
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The difference between a manager and a leader is more profound than most people think. The company that overlooks this difference will suffer for it.
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The most important difference between a great manager and a great leader is one of focus. Great managers look inward. …Great leaders, by contrast, look outward.
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Great managers are not miniexecutives waiting for leadership to be thrust upon them. Great leaders are not simply managers who have developed sophistication. The core activities of a manager and a leader are simply different.
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Great managers… define a talent as a ‘recurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied.’
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A manager can never breathe motivational life into someone else.
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As a manager, your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade ‘talented’ by matching their talent to their role.
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In the minds of great managers, every role performed at excellence deserves respect. Every role has its own nobility.
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Selecting for talent is the manager’s first and most important responsibility. If he fails to find people with the talents he needs, then everything else he does to help them grow will be wasted…
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