The Best Leaders Leverage ‘Quiet Power.’ Here Are 5 Steps to Harness It Yourself
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The Best Leaders Leverage ‘Quiet Power.’ Here Are 5 Steps to Harness It Yourself
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders don’t tell people, they don’t direct people, and they don’t order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: “What would ‘great’ look like?” Here are a few oth
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The measure of my success as a leader is how minimal my intervention can be.
I’m committed to stepping back and allowing others to make their own decisions and find their voice as leaders.
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At Apple, as at Google, a boss’s ability to achieve results had a lot more to do with listening and seeking to understand than it did with telling people what to do; more to do with debating than directing; more to do with pushing people to decide than with being the decider; more to do with persuading than with giving orders; more to do with learn... See more