CHAPTER 8

Grow Your People

My loyalty to you as a follower is a function of the commitment and sacrifice you’ve made to help me grow.

 

The best leaders share a common trait: They help their people grow. They do not leave their people how they met them. They help their people to develop new capacities and competencies to perform better on the job. They ensure that their people constantly hone their skills and push the envelope of their talents to deliver extraordinary performance. These leaders can be likened to a refinery. In fact, I call them people refineries: They process and purify their people and make them more valuable than they were before they met them. And like crude oil distillation that yields more refined products, their people ...

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