- It's a skill that can be taught and developed.
- We can't ask for it if we don't define it.
- It's not about you, it's about them.
- Effective leaders ask a lot of questions.
- Leadership is behavior, not words on a shooting shirt.
- If you don't model it, don't expect it.
- Empowering your team to lead from the middle is powerful.
- Experience can help, but being older doesn't make you a leader.
- If they don't get it, it's on you.
- Listening is an essential skill for great leaders.
- Great leaders develop leaders, not followers.
- Three things genuinely motivate your team - autonomy, mastery and purpose
- There isn't one model that works - your approach must fit your personality.
- Your culture isn't what your veterans say, it's what your rookies do.
- Leaders are grounded in perspective.
- Everyone on your team can lead if you define it the right way.
- If they aren't talking enough, you are probably talking too much.
- The biggest mistake you can make is to say one thing and do another.
- The medium is the message - your tone speaks really loud.
- The less you talk, the more your leadership approach is working.
- They won't believe in what you do if they don't believe in who you are.
- The traditional leadership model - a few leading many - isn't the most effective way.
- Platitudes and catch phrases don't equal leadership.
- What you do is so loud, sometimes they can't hear what you say.
- Calm is a superpower for effective leaders.
- When in doubt, do nothing.
- Expecting more leadership out of certain people means you expect less out of others.
- Leaders are fans - they openly appreciate the right approach.
- Leaders are genuinely curious about others.
- A lack of authenticity is the quickest way to lose them.
- It's not yours, it's theirs.
