Imagine a world where everyone woke up feeling inspired to go to work. Unfortunately, many businesses are a toxic blend of apathy, political paranoia, and self-interest. Eight CEOs and members of The Oracles share their number one strategy for building and leading an elite, peak-performance team.

1. Inspire the ordinary to become extraordinary.

Very few of us have so-called “dream jobs,” like being a rock star or a professional athlete. Most jobs are pretty ordinary. So, how do you maximize the contributions of each employee—especially if they’re feeling apathetic, burned out, or unimportant?

Traditional leadership styles are centered around control. Managers set expectations and then check to see if they’re met. However, that kind of top-down leadership ultimately isn’t effective. In today's successful corporations, more decisions are made from the bottom up, with accountability at lower levels.

In light of this, we must learn to influence instead of trying to control. Regardless of where they sit within the organization, the best leaders inspire the ordinary to become extraordinary through their actions. —Dottie Herman, CEO of Douglas Elliman, a real estate brokerage empire with more than $27 billion in annual sales

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