13 Quotes Tagged: Leadership

"The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

Do not summon people to your office – it frightens them. Instead, go to see them in their offices. This makes you visible throughout the wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them.

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

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To keep your ship moving through the water at maximum efficiency, you have to keep scraping the barnacles off its bottom. It is rare from below is always for adding. If the initiative for barnaclescraping does not come from management, barnacles will never be scraped.