Organizations Should Try To Find Out If

Learning To Be An Effective Leader Is No Different Than Learning To Be An Effective Person. And That's The Hard Part

Recognize The Skills And Traits You Don't Possess, And Hire The People Who Have Them.

If Great Teams Don't Have An "enemy," They Create One For Themselves Because, As Former Coca-cola Ceo Roberto Goizueta Pointed Out, "you Can't Have A War Without One."

This Is More Than Just Having A Vision. You Can See The Difference In The Often-cited Way In Which Steve Jobs Brought In John Sculley To Take Over Apple. At The Time, Sculley Was Destined To Be The Head Of Pepsico. The Clincher Came When Jobs Asked Him, "how Many More Years Of Your Life Do You Want To Spend Making Colored Water When You Can Have An Opportunity To Come Here And Change The World?"

Understand The "gretzky Factor": Cultivate An Instinct, A "touch", Call It What You Will, That Enables You To Know Both Where The "puck" Is Now And Where It Will Be Soon.