Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.
Offer your strengths to others and you’ll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.
Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.
Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.
Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.
Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
Don’t freak yourself out by what other people have. They don’t have what you’ve got.
Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.
We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.
A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don’t like. You don’t always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.
It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success.
We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
It’s ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It’s called progress.
Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back.