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In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.
I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.
Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.
Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.
Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.
Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.
Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.
I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.
I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.
A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.
The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.
The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.
For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.
Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.
The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.
I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.
The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.
Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
I think passion gives you the energy to do what is right, and discipline makes sure you do what is right. So I look at them as kind of cousins maybe.
Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream.
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.
Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.