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A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Ken Blanchard

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
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
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
Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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Focus Success
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
When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
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Acceptance Commitment 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
Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.
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Business Sports Win
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.
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Action Behavior Change Learning Yourself
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
If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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Need People Responsible
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
Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
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Empowerment Let Go Success
Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.
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Generosity Help Prosperity
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
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
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
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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Journey Success Vision
All good performance starts with clear goals.
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Goal Goodness Inspirational One Liner
Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.
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Motivational People Powerful
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
We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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Behavior Person
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
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
Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.
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Light Serious Yourself
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
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
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Greatness Leadership People Vision

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