Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.
– Rachel Maddow
Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.
©Christopher Logue
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts
– Harold MacMillan
The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.
– Stephen Covey
If people around you don’t believe in you, if they don’t encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.
– John C Maxwell
Invite people into your life that don’t look or think like you
– Mellody Hobson
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.
– John C Maxwell
Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.
– Mike Vance
To build trust, a leader must exhibit competence, connection, and character.
– John C Maxwell
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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