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HBR Leader’s Handbook
Make an impact, inspire your organization, and get to the next level

By Brook Manville, Ron Ashkenas

Year Published: 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1633693760
Categories: Leadership, Management

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Your role as a leader is to shape a compelling vision to fit your organization (or unit, or team) and its environment, and then recraft it periodically as conditions change.

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BHAGs or “big, hairy, audacious goals.”

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Two skills are particularly important across sectors and industries at all levels: adaptability and emotional intelligence.

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…the most critical characteristic that leaders should look for in selecting people is potential, ‘the ability to adapt to and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments.’

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As a leader, your words carry extra weight, and if you are overly negative, you can crush a person’s spirit and self-confidence.

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As Vito Corleone said in The Godfather, ‘It’s not personal, it’s business.’

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Base the feedback discussion on data and not just subjective impressions.

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…your role as a leader is to articulate a philosophy of incentives clearly so that people know what it takes to be successful…

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Organizations exist to produce collective results that individuals cannot achieve alone…

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For many leaders, the skills necessary for the achievement of results don’t come naturally…

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