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Leaders recognize the value of trust and build it within their team at every opportunity. Their toolbox is equipped with candor, fairness, predictability, transparency, integrity and competence. Construction is continuous. […]
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Leaders create a good day for those around them with their positive spirit, their sense of purpose and their decisive actions. Leaders don’t leave a good day to chance; they
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We are, through the pattern of our behavior, either giving others permission to keep us safe or, warning them to tread carefully when alerting us to a safety concern. Leaders
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Team members love change — if they initiate the change. Unfortunately, most of us spend a good part of our work life making our way through change we did not
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The nature of change is that it produces fear──fear of losing the familiar and fear of the new and unknown. So change requires courage. Leaders know that courage is not
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Leaders do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, whether they feel like it or not. They are not so much men and women of steel
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When deadlines are looming and economic storms are raging, a leader walks toward the difficulty. Walking a team through challenging times requires a leader who takes the first step. Courage
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Leaders know diversity is about raising, not lowering, the standard. Teams are measured by the diversity [ethnicity, gender, experience and thinking style] they attain — and the unity they retain.
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Leaders know the power of passion. Caring passionately whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It places the spotlight on what can be done, rather than on what
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Leaders trust themselves. They know what they know; and, they know what they don’t know. They are honest with themselves about both. They know when to leverage their knowledge and