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The Advantage:
…it is always worthwhile to take a little time to clarify so that everyone on the leadership team knows and agrees on what everyone else does and that all critical areas are covered.
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The Advantage:
…leaders confuse the mere transfer of information to an audience with the audience’s ability to understand, internalize, and embrace the message…
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The Advantage:
The point of leadership is not to keep the leader entertained, but to mobilize people around what is most important.
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The Advantage:
…leadership teams… still struggle with effective communication because employees wonder about the authenticity of what they are reading and hearing.
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The Advantage:
…most organizations are unhealthy precisely because they aren’t doing the basic things, which require discipline, persistence, and follow-through…
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The Advantage:
Great organizations, unlike countries, are never run like a democracy.
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The Advantage:
…with true clarity and cohesiveness, even a little formal communication will go a long, long way.
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The Advantage:
There is a delicate but critical balance between too much and too little structure in an organization, and the people responsible for creating that balance are its leaders.
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The Advantage:
…the best human systems are often the simplest and least sophisticated ones.
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The Advantage:
The best approach to hiring is to put just enough structure in place to ensure a measure of consistency and adherence to core values – and no more.
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