Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. (Location 181)
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Control, we discovered, only works with a competent workforce that understands the organization’s purpose. Hence, as control is divested, both technical competence and organizational clarity need to be strengthened. (Location 298)
major problems, but everything hinged on me. Numerous (Location 398)
One of the things that limits our learning is our belief that we already know something. (Location 433)
It didn’t matter how smart my plan was if the team couldn’t execute it! (Location 468)
When the performance of a unit goes down after an officer leaves, it is taken as a sign that he was a good leader, not that he was ineffective in training his people properly. (Location 504)
If you walk about your organization talking to people, I’d suggest that you be as curious as possible. As with a good dinner table conversationalist, one question should naturally lead to another. The time to be questioning or even critical is after trust has been established. (Location 667)
Focusing on avoiding mistakes takes our focus away from becoming truly exceptional. (Location 887)
ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE, DON’T JUST AVOID ERRORS is a mechanism for CLARITY. (Location 918)
“Don’t move information to authority, move authority to the information.” (Location 935)
Note: Something to ponder on how to implement it in current org.