Great Leaders Love Talent And Know Where

If I Had To Reduce The Responsibilities Of A Good Follower To A Single Rule, It Would Be To Speak Truth To Power.

The Failure To Find The Right Niche For People - Or To Let Them Find Their Own Perfect Niches - Is A Major Reason That So Many Workplaces Are Mediocre, Even Toxic, In Spite Of The Presence Of Talent. Leaders Of Great Groups Give Them Whatever They Need And Free Them From Everything Else.

Encourage Dissent: Leaders Should Have Associates Who Have Contrary Views, Who Are Devil's Advocates, "variance Sensors" Who Can Tell Them The Difference Between What Is Expected And What Is Really Happening, Between What They Want To Hear And What They Need To Hear. There Are Too Many Naked Emperors Running Around Today.

A Leader Is Someone Whose Actions Have The Most Profound Consequences On Other People's Lives, For Better Or Worse, Sometime Forever And Ever.

Some Of The Strongest Resistance To Necessary Change Is The Result Of What Jim O'toole Has So Aptly Characterized As "the Ideology Of Comfort And The Tyranny Of Custom."