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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

None of us is as smart as all of us.
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Inspirational Leadership Teamwork
Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
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Development Inspirational Leadership Thinking
Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.
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People Praise Wait
Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Act People Right
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
Vision is knowing who you are, where you’re going, and what will guide your journey.
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Future Guide Journey Vision Yourself
Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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Focus Success
Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.
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Live Reality Vision
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
Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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Different Kindness Motivational Race Run
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Feedback Food Learning
It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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Advice Hurt Yourself
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
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Business Leadership Success
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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Goal Yourself
No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.
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Choice Greatness Service
If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.
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Business Company Decision People Responsible

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