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:

…projects that start poorly and don’t recover fast enough will face the extra problem of attrition of top talent.

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Leading the Unleadable:

I expect the leader responsible for any project to ensure that the project is starting from a foundation for greatness.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Time the start [of a project] to enable momentum to build quickly.

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Leading the Unleadable:

Accept in your mind that no is a powerful, useful, and actually positive word.

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Leading the Unleadable:

The lack of ability to say ‘no’ is what drives many projects to start so poorly.

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Leading the Unleadable:

…even if your project started well, it is likely there will come a point when the team’s plan and also the team itself may begin to deteriorate and even fail.

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Leading the Unleadable:

If you watch team sports on television you know that calling a timeout is one of a coach’s most strategic methods. Use it!

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Leading the Unleadable:

People need the space and capacity to make their own decisions, to make their own mistakes, and to complete excellent work, with a sense of great personal satisfaction…

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Leading the Unleadable:

…within that diversity of ways to lead, exceptional leaders know that different circumstances call for different styles of leadership. The key is to make your expectations of leadership known.

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Leading the Unleadable:

What truly motivates people is not money.

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