Business execs share their top leadership advice

Top business execs at Fortune Brainstorm AI shared their best pieces of leadership advice.

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00:00The best leadership advice I've ever gotten has been take on the tough stuff.

00:04Go after the hard stuff and do a better job than anybody else and you never know where that will lead you.

00:09I think the best piece is to listen first and I really try to incorporate that in my day-to-day.

00:14So I really try to listen to others and that's really kind of prevalent in my management meetings, for example.

00:20So when I go in, I think a lot of CEOs tend to speak first. I tend to listen first.

00:24Be patient and play the long game.

00:26It has a lot to do with getting the right type of team together.

00:29When you think about building a team, it's important to not just look at the individual skills,

00:33but how the skills complement one another and how the teams work together.

00:36So the team dynamics are really important.

00:38And sometimes if you have someone who's really talented but not able to deliver on working well with others,

00:43it's actually better not to have that person on the team.