Book Titles

A host of renowned bosses talk about the importance of thanking people, about the power of this small gesture, and how failure to express appreciation to people who are working their tails off is a sign of disrespect.

Expressing gratitude is especially important when the stench of failure is in the air. These are times when people most need support from the boss and each other.

The best bosses don’t just recruit people with stellar solo skills; they bring in employees who will weave their vigor and talents with others.

…the most talented people in every occupation have huge advantages over their ordinary peers.

Unfortunately, many bosses who pay lip service to cooperation unwittingly implement reward systems that stomp it out.

The best bosses do more than charge up people, and recruit and breed energizers. They eliminate the negative…

…teams with just one deadbeat, downer, or asshole suffer a performance disadvantage of 30 to 40 percent compared to teams that have no bad apples.

When a group does interdependent work, rotten apples drag down and infect everyone else. Unfortunately, grumpiness, nastiness, laziness, and stupidity are remarkably contagious.

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.

Bosses [should] spend less time on those endless routine chores (perhaps do a half-assed job on some that don’t matter much) and spend more time showing your people a little love.