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Energy: most of your energy is applied “normally” to engaging… but when you are prepared, you find that you can exploit opportunities with extraordinary forces which are like “a grindstone against egg shells.”
One key to this is to understand your people well enough to set the conditions whereby each of them—individually—can excel. The good leader does not “demand” victory, he ensures it by putting people in positions and situations that play to their unique strengths.
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Abstract: The strengths and shortcomings of the individual also exist in a team… on many teams, individual strengths are negated and it’s the shortcomings that get amplified.
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Abstract: Creating a sustainably positive, can-do environment that delivers results.
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Abstract: The importance of asking questions in building teams.
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Abstract: Formal authority is only one of three tools you can use to engage others to help you, and in many cases, it’s not the optimal choice.
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Three times in the past three weeks, I spent time with people who are very good at their jobs as individuals, but who didn’t operate well as a team. In each case, the issue was that no one asked any questions. Instead, team members would say things like:
“Let me try to explain this to you…”
“Oh, [...]
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