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Enterprise leaders need to come to terms with the fact that their performance will be based on three or four high‐leverage decisions annually; they must set

setting the right course is, “at the intersection of four circles: what the world needs, what you are good at, what you are passionate about, and how you can make money.”

What made for effective leadership depended on how proactive a team was.

Thus, a key function of great managers is helping individual employees refocus and prune their jobs over time so they focus more on activities that give them strength and less on activities that make them weak. Though there will always be parts of anyone’s job that are draining, the companies that do better at minimizing these will have a more

The president also initiated a program to identify employees who had positive disruptive ideas and working styles.

Supervisors in growth-mindset companies saw their team members as having far greater management potential than did supervisors in fixed-mindset companies. They saw future leaders in the making.

Developing yourself as a leader should be a deliberate, conscious process. Think about how much time and energy (and dollars) people spend on achieving optimal physical health—yet few people put the time and effort into strengthening their leadership skills.