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

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