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And like any good leader, he’s quick to take the blame but also share the credit. He once crossed out his name on an award he had received for his work on a mission, wrote in the names of the staff members who did the heavy lifting, and gave it to them.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Jeffrey Garten, say, “The greatest lesson you will learn here is that your biggest strength is also your biggest weakness.”
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
being a leader requires continual learning.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Overstretch—the enfeeblement that comes with confusing ends and means—allows enemies to apply leverage: small maneuvers that have big consequences. Themistocles wouldn’t have won at Salamis without spinning a Delphic oracle. Elizabeth trusted her admirals to trust the winds. And Kutuzov could safely slumber after Borodino, certain that geography, t
... See moreJohn Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
a very mortal human who was willing to demonstrate behavioral standards and facilitate the interaction of teams rather than pretending to know all answers to their many problem sets.
Chris Fussell, C. W. Goodyear, General Stanley McChrystal (Foreword) • One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Six smart sentences will suffice!
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
for a team’s new operational needs from others is likely to be the individual who