… the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn’t work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do
– Carlos Ghosn
… not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine
– Lance Secretan
… from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain.
… person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
… always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
– Susan B. Anthony
please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
.. it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
– Max De Pree
…continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, success and achievement have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
…many leaders cannot distinguish the wood from the trees is that they have spent their lives planting forests.
– Paradigms of Leadership
… gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect.
– Irwin Federman
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