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

Ken Blanchard

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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Behavior Person
Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.
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Leadership Yourself
What we give our attention to, grows.
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Attention Growth One Liner
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
Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
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Company Management Time
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
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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Authority Inspirational Leadership Success
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
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
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
People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
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Feeling Inspirational Morning People Worth
The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
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Commitment Improvement Job Leadership
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
Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
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Action Worth
Present thinking people kill the future.
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Future Kill People Present Technology Thinking
The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.
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Investment People Yourself
Asking for other’s guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It’s always important to check your ego and ask for help.
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Ego Help Important See
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
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Business Imagination Learning Power Teacher Winner
If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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Need People Responsible
As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
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Important Leadership Relationship Yourself
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
Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
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Achievement Bigger Purpose
It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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Advice Hurt Yourself
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
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
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

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