Take the right risks -- Play to your distinctive strengths -- Embrace constraints -- Battle entitlement, the innovation killer -- Step down, back, or sideways to grow -- Give failure its due -- Be driven by discovery.

Do you want to have a high-performing team that strives for greatness, even in the face of uncertainty? Do you want to be a boss people love, while also driving high performance? Building morale and high performance are about engagement, and engagement is all about learning, argues Whitney...