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If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Ken Blanchard

If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.
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Excellence Perfection Seek
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
Everyday do something in relation to everything that’s important to you.
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Everyday Important Relationship 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
It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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Advice Hurt Yourself
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.
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Leadership Style Team
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
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Difference Vision Worth
None of us is as smart as all of us.
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Inspirational Leadership Teamwork
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
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
People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.
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Care Challenge Heart Leadership
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
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
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
What we give our attention to, grows.
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Attention Growth One Liner
Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.
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Light Serious Yourself
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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Journey Success Vision
Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.
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Break Limitation Rule Success
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
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Desire Difference Existence Problem
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
When you stop learning you stop growing.
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Growth Learning Yourself
Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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Different Kindness Motivational Race Run
Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Act People Right
Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
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Beyond Leader Life Servant Special True
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
We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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Behavior Person

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