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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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" I'm kind of a reluctant guru. "

" Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility. "

" Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another. "

" We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not. "

" Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course. "

" I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad. "

" 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. "

" Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning. "

" You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions. "

" I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers. "

" The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense. "

" Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships. "

" Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be. "

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" Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure. "

" At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive. "

" 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. "

" Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success. "

" When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth. "

" Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues. "

" The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well. "

" If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble. "

" At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension. "

" 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. "

" If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt. "

" Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently. "