Editor’s note: This continues Jack Dunigan’s series about unsung heroes in the workplace, and the 16 traits they all share.
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The tasks of evaluation, decision making, and determining action are continually recurring for leaders and managers. We leaders must, from the start of the day to its close, gather information, qualify that information, and prescribe appropriate responses.
This requires intelligence, and I mean that in the broader sense of gathering news and information, not just being smart. Leaders and managers need information and should demand it; they should settle for nothing less.
This is where trait No. 11—truthfulness—comes in. The people that are assembled into work teams and staffs must be truthful with leaders and with themselves.
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Walk on the (human) Wild Side
Hi. I'm only delighted of your article, and of Bruce Hamilton's, Jim Verzino's, and Jeff Dewar's, to name the most recent. Though I'm a nobody, I greatly praise QD plainly and loudly stating that there are still men on Earth, by Ford! And not men who want to be merely medalled or monumented, but who want their fellow people to be a we, an us, instead, to develop a living of themselves and the human society from a temporary aggregate of promiscuous particles. Thank you.
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