Simple Insights…You want to look around and realize you have already built them.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Developing People
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Simple Insights…Become replaceable as quickly as responsible development allows.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…If the answer to 'Who are you developing?' is nobody, leadership development has stopped one generation too soon.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Leadership development should begin when people are young.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…The goal is not replication of personality. It is multiplication of capability and character.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Delegate for development, not merely relief.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…People learn leadership partly from what we teach, but enormously from what we normalize.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…That is not inefficiency. That is multiplication.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…You should work intentionally to become replaceable.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Develop them anyway.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Leadership incompetence can damage people without leadership malice ever being present.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Good character does not automatically produce good leadership.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…You are not the only lid in the organization.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Your leadership ability determines the level of your effectiveness.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Sooner or later, you run out of you.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…If everything depends on you, you have not built an organization. You have built a dependency.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Stewardship does not require you to be good at everything. It requires you to make sure everything entrusted to you is cared for well.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…The question is not merely whether a leader gets results. The question is what happens to people while he is getting them.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Simple Insights…Leadership is measured by what happens to the people we lead.
~ Leadership Masterworks