You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life’s greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others.
Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.
First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Second, prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what’s important, to know what’s next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision. That’s hard work. Third, prioritizing causes us to do things that are at the least uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful.
Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don’t gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning within your own.
Leadership is more disposition than position – influence others from wherever you are.
People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.
Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.
To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.
Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.
A Chinese proverb says, “Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.” Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;.
Good leaders motivate others by their listening skills. We are to: avoid prejudicial first impressions; become less self-centered; withhold initial criticism; stay calm; listen with empathy; be active listeners; clarify what we hear; and recognize the healing power of listening. Then we are to act on what we hear.