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Like Steven Spear describing the Toyota environment as a community of scientists in The High-Velocity Edge, an organization that only Plans and Does can never really improve.
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
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates
John Seiffer • Output Thinking: Scale Faster, Manage Better, Transform Your Company
- Face the Fear Factor
John C. Maxwell • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
any strategy development process must be consultative, one in which individual partners can become convinced that the benefits to them personally of achieving the goals will be worth the personal “costs” of doing new things or different things.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Step 4: I motivate. I take myself out of the task at this point and let the trainee go. My task is to make sure he knows how to do it without help and to keep encouraging him so he will continue to improve.
John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
- The Assumption Gap—“I Assume That I Will Automatically Grow”
John C. Maxwell • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
An inexperienced but capable leader needs time to fully own his or her area of responsibility; in the meantime, I get more involved than I normally would to teach and mentor. As that person gains experience, I slowly allow more freedom and demonstrate more trust.