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If you want to be clear, act.
People quit managers, not jobs.
True individuality can be lonely.
People leave managers, not companies
Great leaders rally people to a better future.
My point is, people really don't change very much.
Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.
Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it.
Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.
A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.
No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.
The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.
If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.
Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.
You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.