Top Highlights

• We confuse success and effectiveness as the general benchmark of leadership.
• The leader must be emotionally resilient, trust others, and be self-confident enough to run effective meetings and speak in public.
• The highest expression of leadership involves change. Caretaker managers can keep things going on a steady path, but leaders are demanded if the organization is to pursue a new path or rise to a significantly higher level of performance.
• we must change the mentality that holds that any organization can have only a few really good leaders.
• Development is far more successful when the leader focuses primarily on strengths rather than being only concerned with repairing weaknesses.