Chapter 5 
Who Gets the Credit?
In a remarkable book about Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer, written by his longtime friend and associate Michael K. Deaver, I found many great sayings. Reagan had a treasury of them! This is one of his best: “You’d be amazed what can be accomplished if you don’t mind who gets the credit.”
If you can inculcate this sentiment in your team, by showing it to be part of your own everyday philosophy, you will see remarkable results in a very short period of time. Again, it calls for a level of maturity on the part of everyone, and it also calls for you to be ready to deal almost paternally with pettiness—in the beginning ...
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