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Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Ken Blanchard

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
In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people. They no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
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Company Leadership Past Power Team Work
When you stop learning you stop growing.
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Growth 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
The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
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Silence Solitude
We can’t control everything in life, that’s for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
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Care Gratitude Life Love People
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
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Greatness Leadership People Vision
Leadership is not something you do to people. It’s something you do with people.
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Leadership People Team Work
Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.
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Business Sports Win
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
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Business Important Management Presence
If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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Need People Responsible
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
If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
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Body God Humility Listening Talk
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
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Business Connection Dignity Feeling Goal Inspirational Job
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
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Goal Leadership Organization Vision
The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
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Commitment Improvement Job Leadership
Everyday do something in relation to everything that’s important to you.
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Everyday Important Relationship Yourself
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
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth and what you tell it.
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Difference Oneself Technology Truth
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
When you touch – don’t take. Touch people only when you are giving something – reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever
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Encouragement Generosity Kindness People Touch
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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Journey Success Vision
Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
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Focus Important People Result Yourself
Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Act People Right
The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
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Development People Responsibility
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

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