The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know

You can’t turn people loose without structure, but you also want to give them enough freedom to be creative. The way to do that is to give them the big three: responsibility, authority, and accountability.

The ability to find another’s seed of success takes commitment, diligence, and a genuine desire to focus on others. You have to look at the person’s gifts, temperament, passions, successes, joys, and opportunities. And once you find that seed, you need to fertilize it with encouragement and water it with opportunity. If you do, the person will blos

When you start developing people, you should never go into it with the idea of getting something out of it.

But you don’t have to be a remarkable or unusually talented person to mentor others.

there are really two kinds of leaders: those who attract followers and those who attract other leaders.

B elieve in them. E ncourage them. S hare with them. T rust them.

the best-equipped people will be ready for the final growth stage that creates the very best leaders—development.

Everyone can find excuses for not giving to those around them. Great leaders know the difficulties and encourage their people anyway.

When I teach leadership seminars, I always teach what’s known as the Pareto (80/20) Principle: In a nutshell, it says that if you focus your attention on the top 20 percent in anything you do, you will get an 80 percent return.

Make the goals measurable. Your potential leaders will never know when they have achieved their goals if they aren’t measurable.