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

Ken Blanchard

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
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Greatness Leadership People Vision
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
What we give our attention to, grows.
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Attention Growth One Liner
Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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Different Kindness Motivational Race Run
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
Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Act People Right
When you stop learning you stop growing.
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Growth Learning Yourself
If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
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People Performance Smart
It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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Advice Hurt Yourself
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
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
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
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
Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.
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Motivational People Powerful
Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.
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People Praise Wait
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

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