110 quotes found
“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; its a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.”
“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; its a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”
“To integrate ones experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a users guide to life.”
“Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. Theyre hell-bent on getting there.”
“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.”
“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”
“The high quality of a companys customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.”
“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.”
“The heart of a companys performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.”
“Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?”
“Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?”
“When you dont know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”
“Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.”
“Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.”
“Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isnt the same as living your own values.”
“Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!”
“The key difference between captain and coach? The latter’s opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,”
“Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. " There's a temptation in our netwo...”
“Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning at App...”
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for th...”
