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Understanding changes minds. Action changes lives.
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Connection provides the bridge between 'this is how' and 'begin now.
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Am I Making Myself Clear?
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The way I like to measure greatness is . . . How many people can you make want to be better?" --WILL SMITH"
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What people remember most is how you make them feel.
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their success is more important to you than your success,
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People like people who like them.
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Some people inspire us more than others do.
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If you do not connect with others, influence is out of the question."8"
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Are you doing what you ask others to do?
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Irresponsible leaders have a "me first" attitude and use their position for personal benefit."
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with success come options. How we use those options reveals our character.
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People naturally see themselves in the light of their intentions, but they measure others according to their actions.
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When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.
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People don't learn from people they don't value.
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My friend Olan Hendrix remarked, "Strategic thinking is like showering, you have to keep doing it." If you expect to solve any major problem once, you're in for disappointment. Little things can be won easily through systems and personal discipline. But major issues need major strategic thinking time. What Thane Yost said is really true: "The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare." If you want to be an effective st..
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Leadership is developed, not discovered. It's a process. Three
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Humility means knowing and using your strength for the benefit of others, on behalf of a higher purpose." --ALAN ROSS"
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Humility means two things. One, a capacity for self-criticism. . . . The second feature is allowing others to shine, affirming others, empowering and enabling others." --CORNEL WEST"
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You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.
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The only way to change how you view life is to change who you are on the inside.
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the leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: "God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank."
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You cannot harvest life's rewards without first planting seeds. Yet
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Motivated employees are 87 percent less likely to leave an organization compared to an unmotivated employee." --BILL HYBELS"
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if you are aware of a problem, it's your responsibility to make a concerted effort to create a positive change. Quit pointing your finger and making excuses, and try being a catalyst by demonstrating and initiating the appropriate behavior. Determine not to be a reactor but an initiator.
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Nothing of significance was ever achieved without people working together.
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If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.
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The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence.
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The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.
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Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step."5"
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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.
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you have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success." He"
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The Influence Factor--Do they influence others? The Capacity Factor--Do they have the potential to grow and develop? The Attitude Factor--Do they desire to grow and develop themselves? The Chemistry Factor--Do we like each other? The Passion Factor--Are they self-motivated? The Character Factor--Are they grounded? The Values Factor--Are our values compatible? The Teamwork Factor--Do they work well with others? The Support Factor--Do they ad..
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Author Noel M. Tichy says, "The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether he or she teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain its success even when he or she is not around."
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Most people who don't feel content with their lives don't know the reason why. Often they suspect that circumstances or other people are to blame. Even honest and self-aware individuals who know the problem lies inside of them still may have trouble getting to the root of the issue. They ask themselves, "Why am I this way?" They desire to change, but they don't do anything differently so that they can change. They merely hope things will tu..
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When we are fully and totally networked, we are powerful.1 Sanders believes that along with knowledge and compassion, your network is your most valuable asset.
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Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.
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a smart person believes only half of what he hears, but a really smart person knows which half to believe.
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Cuando los valores, los pensamientos, los sentimientos y las acciones estan alineados, la persona se enfoca y su caracter es fortalecido.
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Asking and hearing people's opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, 'Good job.' " --Sam Walton"
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When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.
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Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! This amazing statistic was shared with me by my associate Tim Elmore.
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As a leader, you should not be trying to carry everything yourself. To be successful, you must share the load. But you must have highly capable people to hand things off to.
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