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Culture of Grit and Determination

Truly resonant, transformational leaders take their job as communicators very seriously. They work extraordinarily hard to ensure not only a clear and unwavering understanding of organizational intent that everyone can align with, but they also ensure that it is accompanied by the discipline, willingness and fortitude to get things done. They ensure that the chosen playing field is sharply defined, and they have the fierce resolve to establish priorities, make decisions, drive effort and anchor accountability.

Leadership teams fail or, perhaps even worse, just limp along wistfully, because they do not make dependably smart choices, at all levels up and down the organizational hierarchy, about two things in ...

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