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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Stephen Covey

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Act Humility Seek Understand Wisdom
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Family Kindness Relationship
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Emotional Listening Reflection View
When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Commitment Inspirational Integrity Motivational
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Greatness Leadership Talk Yourself
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Deep Human One Liner Perspective Philosophy
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Different Inspirational Love Life Ourselves
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Motivational Trust
To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Achievement Change Goal Inspirational Need

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