Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
