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“Real-Time Agenda Once the lightning round and progress review are complete (usually no more than fifteen minutes into the meeting), now it is time to talk about the agenda. That’s right. Counter to conventional wisdom about meetings, the agenda for a weekly tactical should not be set before the meeting, but only after the lightning round and regular reporting activities have taken place.”
― Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
― Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
“We need to hire people who are hungry. They go beyond what is required. Passionate about the work they're doing. Hungry.”
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
“I think we need to start having a Headline News every day, for five minutes. We could call it a Daily Check-in or something. That means we should get together in a conference room, standing up, and just announce what we’re all doing.”
― Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
― Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
“Instead of asking candidates to self-assess a given behavior or characteristic related to humility, hunger, or people smarts, ask them what others would say about them. For example, instead of asking someone if he considers himself to be a hard worker, ask him “How would your colleagues describe your work ethic?”
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
“Beyond identifying and admitting the cause of their challenge, people who lack humility need behavioral training in an exposure therapy kind of way. Don't be put off by the clinical sound of this. What I mean is that employees can make progress simply by acting like they are humble. By intentionally forcing themselves to compliment others, admit their mistakes and weaknesses, and take an interest in colleagues, employees can begin to experience the liberation of humility. This happens because they suddenly realize that focusing on others does not detract from their own happiness, but rather adds to it. After all, humility is the most attractive and central of all virtues.”
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
― The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
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