Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.
Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.
To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life – caring and sharing – that cannot be learned or purchased.
Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.
You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.
Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.
A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
There is no ‘grand conspiracy’ preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.
When you depend on another’s perceptions to match your expectations, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
People quit people before they quit companies.
For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together – no matter what.
Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.
One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.
If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.
There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.