THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link
Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally. They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive atti...
Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.
See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from...
Realize that the guys who criticize will minimize the guys whose enterprise rises above the guys who criticize and minimize.
Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Piense, actúe, hable y compórtese como la persona que quiere llegar a ser
People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.
People don’t expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If
People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.
People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival. —...
Pastor and radio broadcaster Tony Evans says, If you want a better world, composed of better nations, inhabited by better states, filled with better counties, made up of better cities, comprised of be...
One of the ways Coach Wooden used to do that was to ask his players to acknowledge the skills and contributions of others. He told each player that if a teammate made a great pass or set a pick that a...
One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture i...
One day when the Raiders were in Oakland, a reporter visited their locker room to talk to Ken Stabler. Stabler really wasn’t known as an intellectual, but he was a good quarterback. This newspaperman...
Novelist Victor Hugo believed, He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . B...
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to...
No es necesario decir que podemos interesarnos por las personas sin liderarlas, pero no podemos liderar a las personas sin interesarnos por ellas. La gente no le seguirá si no puede llevarse bien con...