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:

Asking for help is one of the key steps for growing in your leadership sweet spot.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The exceptional leader accepts the reality that all of your ‘to do items’ will not fit in a week. You also know that you can have a positive impact every day.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Improving your skill at ‘how’ to improve is the most powerful of all skills to master.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The exceptional leader knows that he has the ability to improve.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…when you decide to get better at something, think about what things you will try.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Learn from success and from successful failures. Celebrate both. Successful failures are failed attempts where you learn something.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Truly great ideas for improvement come when you have successfully emptied your mind from worries and distractions and enabled your mind to be open to new ideas that are hidden within you.

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Leading the Unleadable:

We go to work in organizations we work in because we accepted positions there. No one forced us to do the work that we do. The person you really work for is you.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…you are one of the stakeholders for your organization. Take ownership of your leadership power. It is your choice to make.

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Leading the Unleadable:

As managers, as leaders, we must never waiver in our obligation to the mission we are engaged in and the group we are leading.

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