Introduction

I have the best job in the world. Every day I work with individuals, CEOs, and leadership teams of mid-sized companies and executives in Fortune 500 firms. Every leader I engage with wants to be successful and many of them reap the greatest satisfaction from seeing their companies and their employees succeed. Many of them are seasoned leaders and recognized long ago that their success is largely derived from the strength of their teams.

In my former life as a corporate executive, I was fortunate to have a few very good mentors. One of them taught me early on that most of my success would result from recruiting the best people. That was great advice. However, I learned that this action alone was insufficient to achieve my goals. Talented, ...

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