Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better – and your response equals the challenge.
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
Vision is seeing a future state with the mind’s eye. Vision is applied imagination.
Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.
Priority is a function of context.
It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy – very busy – without being very effective.
The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It’s to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.
You should seek effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.
The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.
Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don’t see – their potential.
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
Where there’s no gardener, there’s no garden.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.