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:

Treating people with love and respect for their inner strengths is the greatest part of the feedback you can provide.

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Leading the Unleadable:

As a leader, it is important to listen to your inner wisdom. If something is upsetting you, it is almost certainly upsetting others.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Intentions rarely work without a detailed plan.

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Leading the Unleadable:

It is a leadership mistake to recognize just effort. It is more important to recognize when success is achieved.

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Leading the Unleadable:

To be successful in helping people transform behaviors from troublesome to terrific, you must follow through.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…in some cases the removal of an individual means a productivity boost for the group as a whole.

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Leading the Unleadable:

It is important for the exceptional leader to always keep an eye on the horizon.

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Leading the Unleadable:

There is a need for challenges as high as mountains… There is a need for quests.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Outright impossible goals are depressing; however; goals that are outrageously hard and very worth doing are inspiring.

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Leading the Unleadable:

When teams engage in the dialogue, even to complain, they will start to figure out what the goal means to them and how they can contribute.

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