Leaders know they can’t do it alone, teamwork is essential. The seventh leadership commitment is to foster collaboration: your tasks are to create a climate of trust and to facilitate relationships. Sharing information and promoting cooperative goals make it possible for others to contribute good work. The eighth commitment is to strengthen others by allowing them to choose, to make their own decisions and by holding them accountable. Educating others develops both their competence and their confidence.
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Inspiring Quotes …
from our collection. Will some suggest adjustments to your attitudes and behaviours?
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Father James Keller
Great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee, The Power Principle
Coming together is a beginning;
Henry Ford
Keeping together is progress;
Working together is success.
Hope is passion for what is possible.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Chinese Fortune Cookie
Trust is the emotional glue that binds a team together.
Anonymous
I aspire to create an enterprise where at least 80% of everybody’s job consists of doing things that they love.
Dick Vague, Chairman & CEO of First USA, part of Banc One
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown
If we treat people as though they are what they should be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer, Pictorial Artist, Biologist, Theoretical Physicist
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton, US Army Officer/Combat General
One cannot teach a man anything. One can only enable him to learn from within himself.
Galileo
Organization without cooperation Is like a fiddle with one string . . . some notes, but not much music.
Anonymous
I have no pride. I’ll do anything that’s necessary to get people involved. I am a dispenser of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Zander, conductor, Boston Philharmonic
People always move toward someone who increases them and away from anyone who decreases them.
John Maxwell
Share information so your employees can see how to help – and they’ll improve the business.
Antonio Zarate
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Dalai Lama
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The best executive is the one who has enough sense to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max Dupree – Leadership is an Art
The critical skill … will be that of coordinating units that cannot be commanded but which have to work together.
Peter Drucker
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boyle
The most important leadership quality, say America’s youth: being able to see a situation from someone else’s point of view.
Poll by Public Allies
There is one word which may serve as a rule for all one’s life — reciprocity.
Confucius
The paradox of power: we become most powerful when we give our own power away.
Kouzes & Posner
Leadership is a balance of character and competence, endorsed by courage.
Alistair McKnight
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Goethe
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill, British Politician and Statesman
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
There is just so much to learn from so many people.
Paul Douglas