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Define the outcomes you want from your team and its members, and then look for each person’s strength signs to figure out how each person can reach those outcomes most efficiently, most amazingly, most creatively, and most joyfully. The moment you realize you’re in the outcomes business is the moment you turn each person’s uniqueness from a bug into a feature.

Your childish clarity faded, and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. The world was persuasive and loud, and so you resigned yourself to conforming to its demands.

Whereas cascaded goals are a control mechanism, cascaded meaning is a release mechanism. It brings to life the context within which everyone works, but it leaves the locus of control – for choosing, deciding, prioritizing, goal setting – where it truly resides, and where understanding of the world and the ability to do something about it intersect: with the team member.

Actually, the data reveals that checking in with your team members once a month is literally worse than useless. While team leaders who check in once a week see, on average, a 13 percent increase in team engagement, those who check in only once a month see a 5 percent decrease in engagement.

The hardest thing about being a manager is realizing that your people will not do things the way that you would. But get used to it. Because if you try to force them to, then two things happen. They become resentful – they don’t want to do it. And they become dependent – they can’t do it. Neither of these is terribly productive for the long haul.

This company didn’t have one culture. It had as many cultures as it did managers. No.

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it’s really self-involved and very narcissistic – their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it’s about me. It’s a generation that’s been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They’re doing more and feeling less.

Great managers know they don’t have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them. A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

Life’s tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

The opposite of a leader isn’t a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

No idea will work if people don’t trust your intentions toward them.

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

If you want to be clear, act.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

You won’t find a CEO who doesn’t talk about a ‘powerful culture’ as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

It’s odd that I’m a big name in America and not known in Britain.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

When you feel as though you can’t do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it’s just a simple step, and don’t stop at the beginning.

It’s a special person – and personality – who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

There has to be a way to redirect employee’s driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

These four characteristics – simplicity, frequent interaction, focus on the future, and self-tracking – are the foundation for a successful “performance management” routine.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person’s trigger.

Passion isn’t something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you’re actually doing every day.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

CEOs hate variance. It’s the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it.

We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.

Companies don’t have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

We’re all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique – they’re called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

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