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:

In the more rare elite organizations, they reward the results, not the sweat.

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Leading the Unleadable:

To be successful in getting your organization to be successful at meeting your expectations of excellence, you must provide the opportunity of time and resources to learn new skills.

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Leading the Unleadable:

To be successful in getting your organization to be successful at meeting your expectations of excellence, you must provide the opportunity of time and resources to learn new skills.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…if you want learning to occur, you must hold up the high bar of your expectations. This must not relent even when teams are falling short. Do not reward the sweat. Reward the results.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Do not punish falling short. There will be shortfalls, but from each shortfall there will be learning…

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Leading the Unleadable:

The key action of exceptional leadership when confronted with failure is to gather the great from the shrapnel of failure.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Whining breaks are an important element of failure.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…exceptional leadership must… generate lots of ideas based on what you just learned.

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Leading the Unleadable:

If failure is not dealt with in the proper way, it often leads to many of the worst traits from the taxonomy of trouble.

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Leading the Unleadable:

If you want exceptional results, start toward your goals in the manner you expect to reach them – exceptionally!

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