Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders: 100 Lessons to Equip Your People to Create Winning Organizations

By Terry Gardiner

100 easy lessons to equip everyone in your organization to deliver exceptional results! Learn about best practices to grow your people, your teams and your organization, whether a business, nonprofit or government organization. Leapfrog a bookshelf full of best sellers on leadership and management and find the distilled nuggets in Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders. This resource provides concise best practices you can apply immediately to your work and build a more successful organization.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry Gardiner
• Release date: Feb 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310601347

Terry Gardiner

Terry Gardiner is the founder of the Best Practices Wiki, a free public repository of best practices for small businesses and nonprofits. He has four decades of hands on leadership, management and organizational growth experiences in business, government and nonprofits. His personal mission is to ensure best practices are available so organizations succeed and humanity progresses. A full bio is available at the Solutions That Endure Website http://solutionsthatendure.com/about/long-bio/

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Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders

100 Lessons to Equip Your People to Create Winning Organizations

Terry Gardiner

Published by Pacelli Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2015, 2017 by Terry Gardiner

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Introduction

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was challenged by some friends to write a story in six words. He responded to the challenge with the following story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Lonnie Pacelli, the series creator, believes this style of writing applies to today’s culture of text messages, tweets and Facebook posts. Thus the inspiration for the Six-Word Lessons series was born.

Writing a Six-Word Book appealed to me, as Hemingway is one of my favorite authors and an inspirational writer. Secondly, I had launched a project, The Best Practices Wiki, to help leaders and managers of small organization find best practices to grow their organizations. I thought that writing a book with one hundred lessons on how to grow your organization would be a good method to crystalize the lessons I learned from four decades of leading various organizations.

These lessons come from my lifetime of experiences in business, public office and nonprofits. I have served in many roles of leadership and management and learned