Book Titles

The command and control model of leadership just won’t work 99 percent of the time. -A.G. Laffey

You don’t develop people on the cheap, and you don’t just bolt a development program onto existing HR procedures.

The CEOs of top-performing companies agree that people development is at the center of their jobs.

Though executives at the best companies talk about their leadership development programs, they generally realize the term isn’t quite right. Developing leaders isn’t a program – it’s a way of living.

…most people in an organization don’t work alone. They work in teams, strictly or loosely defined. And a team’s performance is emphatically not determined solely by the abilities of its members individually.

Turning groups of great individuals into great teams is a discipline in itself, which also operates on the principles of great performance.

Organizations that are the most successful at building team performance are especially skilled at avoiding or addressing potential problems that are particularly toxic to the elements of deliberate practice…

Chemistry and culture are key.

Trust is the most fundamental element of a winning team.

…consultants have developed many additional exercises that involve people sharing personal stories or revealing their personality type… But the process can be rushed only so much.