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Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Ken Blanchard

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.
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Light Serious Yourself
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
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
Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
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Achievement Bigger Purpose
Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
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Action Worth
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
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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Goal Yourself
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
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Business Leadership Success
Your game is only as good as your practice.
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Game Inspirational One Liner Practice
The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.
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Investment People 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
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
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
The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
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Silence Solitude
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
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
Have I done what is really important today?
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Important Myself
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
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
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
The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
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Development People Responsibility
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
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
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
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Difference Vision Worth
If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.
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Excellence Perfection Seek
Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
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Honesty Integrity Ourselves Truth
One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.
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Deep Leadership Life Principle Yourself

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