Perpetuating mediocrity is an inherently depressing process and drains much more energy out of the pool than it puts back in. – Jim Collins
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On Purpose
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
On Dreaming
All men dream: but not equally.
On Touching hearts
A gifted leader is one who is capable of touching your heart – Jacob Samuel Potofsky
On Spectacular Achievement
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation
On Serving
You will never become a fine leader until you become a fine servant – Ellie Lofaro
On Less is more
The easy way to be a good example is to stop being a bad one – General Omar Bradley
On Perfection
All my life as a musician I have striven for perfection. It has always eluded me. I surely had an obligation to make one more try – Verdi
On How Things Turn Out
Things turn out best for those who make the most of how things turn out
On Meetings
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organisation. We either meet or work, we can’t do both at the same time. – Peter Drucker
On Preparation
If I am to speak 10min, I need a week for preparation, if fiften minutes, 3 days, if half an hour, 2 days, if 1 hour, I’m ready now – Woodrow Wilson
On Experience
wisdom is the result of experience, experience is usually a result of lack of wisdom
On Synergy
Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. – Mark Twain
On Closeness
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them – John C. Maxwell
On Extraordinary People
There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people who do extraordinary things
On Inspiring
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader – John Quincy Adams
On Thinking Big
As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big
On Customer First
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours – Ray Kroc
On What lies within us
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
On People
We do not love people so much for the good they have done for us, as for the good we do to them – Leo Tolstoy
On Teams
None of us is as smart as all of us – Ken Blanchard
On Time Management
Time management is not about doing things faster. Time management is about doing the right things – Peter Drucker
On Boldness
Seize this very minute, what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
On Target
You cannot lead anyone where you yourself are unwilling to go – Gandhi
On Dreams
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done – Ralph Nader
On Setting the example
Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become – Nido R. Qubein
On Scarcity
Those who make the worst use of their times are the first to complain of its shortness – Jean de la Bruysre
On Little Things
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things … I am tempted to think … there are no little things
On Shovels
Think in shovels, not in teaspoons.
On Teaching
To Teach is to learn again
On Authority and Responsibility
Authority without responsibility is illegitimate but so is responsibility without authority
On Undone
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials – Lin Yutang
On Pigs
When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy
On Your Entry Point
Wherever you are is the entry point
On Integrity
The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity – Dwight D. Eisenhower
On Priorities
If everything is important, nothing is important – LTG Rick Lynch
On Mediocrity
Perpetuating mediocrity is an inherently depressing process and drains much more energy out of the pool than it puts back in. – Jim Collins
On Relationships
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations – Oscar Wilde
On Reading
The person who doesn’t read is no better off than the person who can’t
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