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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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Most team members have tasks they enjoy more than others. They rarely assess the continued value of what they like doing. Leaders know the value of a task is dynamic
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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. Or, stated another way: Hope is not a strategy! However, leaders know a well-designed and executed strategy
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Leaders know that doing what you love means dealing with things you don’t love. And, the failure to deal with what you don’t love will, sooner or later, prevent you
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Leaders know and live trust: Do what is right. Deliver what is promised. Be the same person, whatever the circumstances. Be Accountable. Leaders build trust by being trust. ─ Ken
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Leaders understand that people matter. Even when a team member requires guidance or a reprimand, a leader remembers the team member’s value and treats him/her in a way that affirms