If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERSIt doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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