Leading with Confidence is Bobb Biehl’s time-tested guidebook to 30 essential leadership areas. Biehl covers topics such as coping with change, depression, failure, fatigue, and pressure. He shares insight into developing skills such as asking, dreaming, goal setting, prioritizing, risk taking, influencing, money managing, personal organization, problem solving, decision making, and communicating, as well as difficult subjects like how to be more effective at delegating, firing, reporting, team building, people building, recruiting, master planning, and motivating.
“I believe the essence of doing it right is in maintaining this perspective: When you appropriately fire a person from a position in which he is failing, you are actually releasing him from that failure—and freeing him to seek a position in which he can find success. With a proper release, it’s even possible to instill in the person the excitement that comes from anticipating a new venture.” (Page 105)
“But understand that this person has given part of his life to help in your company or department or organization, and whatever things he did right are what you want to recognize him for.” (Page 108)
“You may need someone from the outside to help give you objectivity—another staff member, someone from another department or division, or a consultant.” (Page 108)
“ Explore all five of these possibilities before making your conclusion.” (Page 106)
“the single most difficult aspect of their leadership.” (Page 105)