All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.
Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.
Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.
Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.
Good people always rise to your level of expectation.
Nurturing has the ability to transform people’s lives.
People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.
If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!
Even if you’ve had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.
Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.
People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
The secret to success can be found in people’s daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don’t, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.
If your vision doesn’t cost you something, it’s a daydream.
People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.
People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.
Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, ‘I’ll get a bigger job, then I’ll learn how to be a leader.’ But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn’t a position, it’s a process.
Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.