Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.
As a leader, you don’t earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don’t get credit for being “right” as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader.
When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.
If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.” Many.
An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.
To do well at a few things, give up many things.
Most of us think wonderful things about people, but they never know it. Too many of us tend to be tight-fisted with our praise. It’s of no value if all you do is think it; it becomes valuable when you impart it.
By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you’ve been knocked down. Failing Forward.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.” – STEVE JOBS.
Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little, and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and His presence to be with them.
You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst.
A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.
Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.
Average” is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?
Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.
If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.