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" If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth. "
Patrick Lencioni
You
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Enough
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" I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life. "
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" There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder. "
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" You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others. "
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" A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time. "
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" The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame. "
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" What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence. "
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" People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life. "
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" Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization. "
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" I'm kind of a reluctant guru. "
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" Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships. "
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" Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way. "
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" God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves. "
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" Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers. "
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" Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be. "
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" On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team. "
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" Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. "
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" Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes. "
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" The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart. "
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" Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization. "
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" If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many. "
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" Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top. "
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" Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it. "
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" When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered. "
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" Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that. "
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