Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking to one another.
Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life’s difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
Never complain about what you allow.
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn’t be able to sit down for weeks.
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I want to encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed.
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time – either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People’s answers to these give me great insight into someone’s heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?
Those things that hurt, instruct.” – Benjamin Franklin.
The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.” – Kevin Myers.
We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.” – Donald M. Nelson.
Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.
Connectors create an experience everyone enjoys.
What’s the key to relating to others? It’s putting yourself in someone else’s place instead of putting them in their place.
If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.
Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.” – Fred W. Smith.
There isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.” – Fred Rogers.
A person with a negative self-image will expect the worst, damage relationships, and find others who are similarly negative.
Managers work with processes – leaders work with people.
There is no achievement without failure.