Quotes by American Authors - Page 290

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
Stan Slap
What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.
Stan Slap
Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.
Stan Slap
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
Stan Slap
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Stan Slap
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.
Stan Slap
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
Stan Slap
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
Stan Slap
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
Stan Slap
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Stan Slap
Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.
Stan Slap
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Stan Slap
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
Stan Slap
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
Stan Slap
True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.
Stan Slap
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
Stan Slap
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
Stan Slap
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Stan Slap
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Stan Slap
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Stan Slap
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
Stan Slap
Leaders create a legacy daily.
Steve Gutzler
Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
Gary L. Graybill
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Stan Slap
One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well.
Jacqueline Patricks
The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.
Stan Slap
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Stan Slap
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
Stan Slap
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Stan Slap
When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.
Noel DeJesus
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.“- Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
The shoes of leadership have many ways to pinch and blister the feet of those who walk in them. But here's the thing, when we do walk in them despite the difficulties and challenges, our gait gradually changes from an ungainly, self-conscious toddle to a poised, purposeful stride that inspires trust in those who follow.
Jodi Detrick
Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead.
Thomas Narofsky
What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why
Todd Stocker
The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.
J. Loren Norris
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
J. Loren Norris
Are you ready to possess your master piece; ready to live a life that is worthy of who you were made to be? You will likely shed a few tears—tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of revelation—you might scream out loud and laugh out loud. You might even stomp your feet, shake your fist or pound the air. That's okay, because later on you might just run out and hug a stranger, love an enemy and sing like never before as well.
J. Loren Norris
At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.
Gary Rohrmayer
Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to developmentof leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you areshooting for if you are going to hit the target.
Gary Rohrmayer
One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmineof leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realizedthat there are no such things as 'ready-made leaders'.
Gary Rohrmayer
The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.
Scott K. Edinger
Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies tosee their possibilities.
Gary Rohrmayer
Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.
Gary DePaul
Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title...
Angie Morgan
Failures, repeated failures, are finger-prints on the road to achievement. .
JOHN C MAXWELL
He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader
Kirsten Beyer
How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.
JOHN C MAXWELL
Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Liz Weber
Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.
Bobby Hoffman
The key to organizational success is to integrate next generation of leaders, tap into their way of looking at the world, solve problems in a very collaborative working style.
Pearl Zhu
Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
Stan Slap
Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference
Leo Babauta
With great responsibility comes great power.
Sean O'Donoghue Morgan
Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.
Lisa Firestone
All limits in life are self imposed.
Sean O'Donoghue Morgan