Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership – it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.
To help others develop, start with yourself.
To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.
When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.
Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves.
The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.
The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It’s in here. And happiness is not next week. It’s now.
If you aren’t opening doors for people, you are closing them!
What got you here won’t get you there.
It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.
The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone’s reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth’s simple steps for ‘getting everyone to follow your lead.’
The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.