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The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Ken Blanchard

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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Inspirational Leadership Positive
Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
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Attitude Goodness Intention Reaction
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
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Appearance Feeling Goodness People
Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.
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Journey Leadership Path People
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose… It is the picture you have of yourself – the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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Leadership Life Photograph Principle Purpose
If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.
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Excellence Perfection Seek
Present thinking people kill the future.
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Future Kill People Present Technology Thinking
Too many leaders act as if the sheep. Their people are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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Humility Inspirational Leadership Responsibility
Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
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Discipline Habit Inspirational Leadership
Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
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Change Enjoyment Learning Necessary World
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.
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Action Behavior Change Learning Yourself
Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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Empowerment Knowledge Mean Skill Team
Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
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Achievement Bigger Purpose
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
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Difference Vision Worth
Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.
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People Praise Wait
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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Goal Yourself

The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

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