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:

Having multiple ways of thinking about things can lead to arguments, but with great leadership this results in great innovation.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The exceptional leader believes that when someone is causing problems it is not the person’s intention to cause problems.

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Leading the Unleadable:

See reality. Accept reality. Deal with reality.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Be courageous and set the bar of excellence high. Provide the investments and belief in your people that they can learn how.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The real role of exceptional leadership is to create a culture where people do extraordinary things!

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Leading the Unleadable:

Once you have created your first gelled team, you will work continually to find more ways to create gelled teams and improve how you do so.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The exceptional leader is always looking for ways to create teams of people in which the team can figure out how to address the trouble without management involvement.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The final key to the exceptional leadership power to transform the troublesome to the tremendous is to take ownership of your leadership power.

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Leading the Unleadable:

To deal with issues you first must be aware that they exist.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The way you conduct yourself in listening and responding will build the foundation of trust.

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