Book Titles

Leading the Unleadable
How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult People

By Alan Willett

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0814437605
Categories: Difficult People, Leadership, Management

114 Quotes Found

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Leading the Unleadable:

…the greater the responsibilities of leadership, the greater the amount of trouble you must deal with.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Leadership isn’t just making a series of decisions… The very essence of being a leader and how you lead is itself a choice.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…understand that however you have found yourself in a leadership position, you have made the choice to be a leader, even if that was not your intent!

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Leading the Unleadable:

…the work of leadership is all about people.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…leaders are leading other people to accomplish a shared set of objectives.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…we absolutely need others if we want to achieve the bigger things we desire to accomplish.

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Leading the Unleadable:

There will be stress on any team striving for excellence, and that often leads to conflict. The key is that conflict must be constructive…

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Leading the Unleadable:

Projects are successfully completed by people – not by methodology or technology.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…most people develop their diva personalities because they are actually very good at what they do.

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Leading the Unleadable:

People in leadership positions are generally very ambitious, which means there will be conflicts…

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