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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
“Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
If you inherently trust others and believe they want to do their best and get better, you can become a great leader—as long as you hire talented self-starters.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
By deferring to the HIPPO (the highest-paid person’s opinion) in the room, we let ourselves off the hook if there’s a mistake.
Gretchen Anderson • Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
over-delegation. I had empowered my employees so much that I gave them all the power.
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
When leaders—and peers—limit their accountability discussions to private conversations, they leave people wondering whether those discussions are happening. This often leads to unproductive hallway conversations and conjecture about who knows what about whom.
Patrick M. Lencioni • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business (J-B Lencioni Series)
Regenerative Development and Design
The underlying worldview is that workers are mostly lazy, dishonest, and in need of direction. They must be supervised and told what is expected of them.