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Guide to Management: Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time, p. 82.

Management’s first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Management must also enable the enterprise and each of its members to grow and develop as needs and opportunities change. Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution.

One of the guiding principles I use during this process is the Pareto Principle. I’ve often taught it to people at leadership conferences over the years, and I also explain it in depth in my book Developing the Leader Within You.

Be consistent.

the best of the best I have known are extraordinarily grounded people; they are compulsive about detail, pragmatic, down-to-earth, in touch with the seamy reality of ordinary life. They know that a business doesn’t miss the mark by failing to achieve greatness in some lofty, principled way, but in the stuff that goes on in every nook and cranny of

For a more complete definition and process for discovering your core values, read Jim Collins’ September–October, 1996 Harvard Business Review article entitled “Building Your Company’s Vision” (go to www.hbr.com to download a copy for $6). I’ve chosen to align with our friend Jim’s language. Jim was the co-author of Built to Last, which I consider