Chapter 2 No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders Flashcards
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What is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance?
leadership
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Whether a team wins or fails is all up to _____
The leader.
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The leader’s _____ sets the tone for the entire team.
attitude
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The leader drives performance or doesn’t, what types of leaders does this apply to?
applies to senior leaders and junior leaders in the team as well.
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Looking back at his time as a boat crew leader how did the Author learn to motivate is team members to motivate his crew to push harder?
He discovered he need to put himself in the most difficult position in order to lead, that it was better to focus the team on smaller immediate goals and that he could have yelled less and encouraged more.
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What crucial concept must leaders fully understand and implement to enable them to most effectively lead a high performance team?
No bad teams, only bad leaders
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If there is a problem that inhibits performance what EO leader do?
Own the problem and develop solutions to those problems.
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A team can only deliver exceptional performance if the leader ensures what happens?
Team works together toward a focused goal, and enforced high standards of performance, working to continuously improve.
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When it come to standards as a leader its not what you preach its….
What you tolerate.
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When setting expectations if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable, what happens?
That poor performance becomes the new standard.
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How do leaders ensure that higher expectations standard is achieved?
Leaders must ensure that task are repeated until the higher expectation standard is achieved.
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One lesson from the Boat Crew VI
Most people want to be part of a wining team they just don’t know how or simply need motivation and encouragement.
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What is leadership all about?
getting different members working together to accomplish the mission.
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Leaders should never be satisfied, they need to always strive to improve, and build that mind-set into the team. To improve leaders must make brutally honest assessments of themselves and the team’s performance. Once weakness has been identified, what do good leaders do?
Seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan that overcome challenges.
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tortured genius
Individual who accepts zero responsibility for mistakes, makes excuses and blames everyone else for their failings ( and those of their team). In their mindset the world just cant see or appreciate the genius in what they are doing.
