“Leadership / Be Afraid and Do It Anyway”
“A monumental question for leaders in any organization to consider is: How much greatness are we willing to grant people?” (The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander)
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“Leaders focus on the soft stuff. People. Values. Character. Commitment. A Cause.
All of the stuff that was supposed to be too ‘goo-goo’ to count in business. Yet, it’s the stuff that real leaders take care of first. And forever.
That’s why leadership is an art, not a science. If leadership were just about hitting your numbers, about driving the troops to meet their quotas, then leadership would just be a math problem. But leadership is a human mystery.” (Tom Peters)
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“The most effective way to teach anyone what we would like them to know is through behavior, not words. … People of action, those who make a difference in life, those whom we most admire, all seem to know the truth of the ancient wisdom (of Emerson), ‘What you do speaks so loud, I can’t hear what you say.’
Be a doer. And in the process, you will do more to teach others ….” (Wayne W. Dyer, Wisdom of the Ages)
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” (e. e. cummings)
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“Zig Ziglar used to tell a story about a baseball team on a losing streak. On the road for a doubleheader, the team visited a town that was home to a famous faith healer. While the guys were warming up, the manager disappeared. He came back an hour later with a big handful of bats. ‘Guys, these bats were blessed and healed by the guru. Our problems are over.’
According to the story, the team snapped out of their streak and won a bunch of games. Some people wonder, ‘Did the faith healer really touch the bats, or was the manager making it up?’ Huh? Does it matter? (Seth Godin)
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“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.” (Dale Carnegie)
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“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” (Dr. Spock)
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“Be afraid and do it anyway.” (Rachel Muir)
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