Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, "Wrong jungle!" But how do the busy, efficient producers and managers often respond? "Shut up! We're making progress!"
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
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A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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