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Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Ken Blanchard

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
Leadership is not something you do to people. It’s something you do with people.
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Leadership People Team Work
None of us is as smart as all of us.
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Inspirational Leadership Teamwork
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
Don’t wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.
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People Praise Wait
Present thinking people kill the future.
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Future Kill People Present Technology Thinking
Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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Focus Success
The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
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Commitment Improvement Job Leadership
Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
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Empowerment Let Go Success
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
Real communication happens when people feel safe.
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Communication Feeling People Reality Safety Thinking
Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
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Discipline Habit Inspirational Leadership
When you stop learning you stop growing.
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Growth Learning Yourself
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
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
When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
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Acceptance Commitment 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
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
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
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Business Leadership Success
A river without banks is a large puddle.
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One Liner River
If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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Need People Responsible
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
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Feedback Food Learning
Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
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Action Worth
Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Act People Right
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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Journey Success Vision
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

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