One of my favorite stories is about a newly hired traveling salesman who sent his first sales report to the home office. It stunned the brass in the sales department because it was obvious that the ne...
If you’re going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.
Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.
When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you.
THE DIFFERENCE THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Earlier in my life, I have to admit, I was often guilty of this error. I wanted to take an idea from seed thought to solution before sharing it with anyone, even the people it would most impact. I did...
If you tend to focus on the particular events in your life, try to put things into perspective. When you do, you'll be able to share the philosophy of someone such as the apostle Paul, who was able to...
Parkinson’s Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you’ll get them done in one day.
If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don’t add value, then the whole team gets better. It’s just like trimming trees: If you...
You cannot kindle afire in any other heart until it is burning within your-ELEANOR DOAN
To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support. And relate and respond. And give and take. And confess and forgive. And reach out and embrace. And release and rely….
St. Francis of Assisi said, Start doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Success consists of a series of little daily victories. —Laddie F. Hutar
Las personas no quieren ser manejadas. Quieren ser dirigidas. ¿Alguien ha oído de un administrador mundial? De un líder mundial, sí. De un líder educativo, sí. De un líder político, religioso, explora...
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
Create memories.
Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, There is a force resisting the beautiful things in the world, and too many of us are giving...
God had to break Jacob to make him useful. In the breaking process, Jacob—the deceiving heel-catcher—became Israel, a prince with God who purposed to serve God rather than himself. Natural leaders oft...
God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.
Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus say that trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
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