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If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.
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I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
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Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
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The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.
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When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.
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Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.
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It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
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All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.
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A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.
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We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
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What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.
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Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
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When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
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Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.
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People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.
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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
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Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
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The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success
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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
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Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
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