Teams succeed when everyone feels like they can speak up and when members show they are sensitive to how one another feels.
“Certainly, we always need to search for new ideas and solutions—invention and discovery move humankind forward—but the biggest problems facing organizations today stem not from a dearth of new management ideas (we’re inundated with them), but primarily from a lack of understanding the basic fundamentals and, most problematic, a failure to consistently apply those fundamentals”
― Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
― Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
“While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.”
― Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
― Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
“Business management books often stress “centralized planning and decentralized execution.” That is too top-down for my taste. I believe in a centralized vision, coupled with decentralized planning and execution.”
― Call Sign Chaos
― Call Sign Chaos
“In addition to having audacious ambitions and plans that are thorough, we still need, occasionally, to step outside the day-to-day and consider if we’re moving toward goals that make sense. We still need to think.”
― Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
― Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
“Men who are familiarized to danger meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.”
― Call Sign Chaos
― Call Sign Chaos
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