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Seldom does financial distress happen when someone doesn’t see it coming. But, frequently happens when those who see financial distress coming fail to sound the alarm for fear of encountering a bad leader who will deny it.

Good leaders endear themselves to followers. Bad leaders endear themselves not by their character and work ethic, but by the power of the potential benefits that they offer to their followers.

Bad leaders are frequently fearful that they will be discovered to not have all the data or all the solutions that they lead people to believe they have.

You can come to be known, build your brand, and be compensated as an incredible leader if you learn the lessons of building, maintaining, recreating, and/or reforming organizational cultures.

Many highly successful people have decisions and deeds somewhere in their history that achieved less than stellar results, but for which they took responsibility and achieved compensating successes.

Good leaders maintain consistency among what they say, what they mean, and what they do. For bad leaders this isn’t necessarily the case as inconsistency doesn’t bother them.

The difficulty with being a problem-solver is that people who are identified as such threaten those higher in the organization who are only seen as problem-managers.

Good leaders not only place employees in situations in which they will succeed, but keep them out of situations in which they are likely to fail.

Creating time margins is one of the greatest gifts a leader can give.