We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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