Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated.
– Dag Hammarskjöld
Category Archives: Coaching
The country…
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players
– Don Coryell
How do you…
How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.
– Sir John Harvey-Jones
My grandfather…
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.
– Indira Gandhi
Life is…
Life is the leader’s laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.
– James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Life is…
Life is the leader’s laboratory, and exemplary leaders use it to conduct as many experiments as possible. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. Try, fail, learn. That’s the leader’s mantra. Leaders are learners. They learn from their failures as well as their successes, and they make it possible for others to do the same.
– James Kouzes and Barry Posner
True leaders…
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up
– Sheri L. Dew
The people…
… who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize
– Elizabeth Harrison
To excel…
… means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses.
– Robert Cooper
Tact…
…. is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt
– Orlando Battista
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