Book Titles

How to Be a Great Boss

By Gino Wickman, René Boer

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1942952848
Categories: Being a Boss, Leadership, Management

85 Quotes Found

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Being a great leader doesn’t make you a great manager and vice versa.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Once you’ve provided clear direction for your people, you must give them the tools and support they need to succeed.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Of all resources that you can provide, the most important one is your personal time and attention.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

While your time is vital for your people as a resource, don’t lose sight of other vital resources such as training, technology, and additional people.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Many leaders can’t or won’t let go.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Your people want the freedom to do what you’ve hired them to do, and they can get frustrated when you meddle with them while they’re trying to do it.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

All the words in the world mean nothing to your people if you don’t back them up with your actions.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Do what I say, not as I do’ doesn’t work.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

One discipline that all great leaders have in common is that they take time on a regular basis to rise above the everyday demands of their jobs to reflect and think from the thirty-thousand-foot-level.

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How to Be a Great Boss:

Thinking is the hardest work there is which is probably the reason so few engage in it. – Henry Ford

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