Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.
Great leaders don’t blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.
As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.
Henry Ford summed it up best. “If I had asked people what they wanted,” he said, “they would have said a faster horse.
Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.
Charisma has nothing to do with energy; it comes from a clarity of WHY. It comes from absolute conviction in an ideal bigger than oneself. Energy, in contrast, comes from a good night’s sleep or lots of caffeine. Energy can excite. But only charisma can inspire. Charisma commands loyalty. Energy does not.
Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.
Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.
Regardless of WHAT we do in our lives, our WHY – our driving purpose, cause or belief – never changes.
Integrity is when our words and deeds are consistent with our intentions.
Passion alone can’t cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.
Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.
Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.
The goal is not simply for you to cross the finish line, but to see how many people you can inspire to run with you.
It is not the demands of the job that cause the most stress, but the degree of control workers feel they have throughout their day. The studies also found that the effort required by a job is not in itself stressful, but rather the imbalance between the effort we give and the reward we feel. Put simply: less control, more stress.
Our need to belong is not rational, but it is a constant that exists across all people in all cultures.
The greatest contribution of a leader is to make other leaders.