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After many lessons I only invest in companies I understand, whose management I know and whose character and culture I like. Three questions kept me busy for a long time: How does one make a company grow, when are people happy and what’s the key to making a success of a company? The answer is ultimate empowerment.

Choose an EQ mentor. Find someone who is gifted in your chosen EQ skill, and ask this person if he or she is willing to offer you feedback and guidance at regular intervals during your journey. Be certain to set up a regular meeting time, and write this person’s name in your action plan.

A few hundred users may suffice for an OKR laboratory, to iron out any kinks before deployment at scale. At Intuit, says CEO Brad Smith, who posts his own goals in his office for anyone to see, connected goal setting “is critical to enabling employees to do the best work of their lives.”

Leaders like O’Brien go one step further: “In the type of organization we seek to build, the fullest development of people is on an equal plane with financial success.”

focusing the collective efforts of the firm’s principals around carefully chosen areas of experience would…

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Rather than finding a single mentor, you can leverage Pixar’s creation to form your own brain trust—a personal board of advisers for your life. Just as Pixar used this group to improve the quality of its creative decisions, you can use your brain trust to improve the quality of your personal and professional decisions. Your brain trust is a group o

One company policy is that all leaders must spend 10 percent of their time helping employees develop—including the CEO, Thom Crosby. “The core part of every manager’s job is to be an educator,” Crosby has said.9

Peter Drucker.

As you develop people, remember that you are taking them on the journey toward success with you, not sending them.