Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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