Prize the quality of your attention Listen as if your leadership life depended on it. It does. When you make mistakes, listen to the effects of them. Apologize. Correct them. Appreciate five times more than you criticize. Stop competing with your colleagues. Encourage their excellence. Trust that your own will be evident. Set up a Thinking Partnership with a colleague. Meet three times a week for fifteen-minute turns each. Run every meeting and presentation as a Thinking Environment (see Chapters 15 and 17
