We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not even addressing the real problem.
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.
Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it’s hard to establish trust with others if you can’t trust yourself.
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won’t necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
We can’t live without eating, but we don’t live to eat.
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.