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“Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.”

“What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”

“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.”

“The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.”

“You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.”

“Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.”

“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.”

“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.”

“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.”

“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.”

“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.”

“There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.”

“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.”

“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.”

“Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.”

“The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.”

“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.”

“Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.”

“Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.”

“Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.”

“We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.”

“At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.”

“The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.”

“A leader who can see beyond their own interests, who has walked in the shoes of others, and who can anticipate the broader impact of their decisions is one who will serve with integrity, vision, and compassion. - Leadership, Accountability, and the Cost of Anger: A Reflection on What Truly Defines Progress (Medium Story)”

“Unless you go out of your comfort zone. Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Leadership is the art of growing by pushing yourself past your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual limits.”

“Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.”

“Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.”

“Ineffective leadership, is the plight of followers who anoint power to the autocratic persons who's visions are not founded but are rather arbitrary in their nature.”