Doing the right thing daily compounds over time.
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.
Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person’s mood and attitude.
Credibility is a leader’s currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.
A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.
Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.
To Stay Focused in Life: You can’t know everyone You can’t do everything You can’t go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.
Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.
Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It’s the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.
Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.
People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.