Category: Leadership Meditations

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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

I do not believe you can do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow. Nelson Jackson

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”     Albert Einstein

Leadership, Management and People ” To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.” “The greatest waste of management is failure to use the abilities of people … to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.” Out… Continue reading Untitled

An executive once commented, “There is no such thing as corporate culture.” His point was that the minute you start talking about corporate culture, it becomes somebody else’s problem, the leader’s problem. He went on to say, “We don’t focus on corporate culture. We focus on character. When you use the word character, that’s everyone’s… Continue reading Untitled

Persistence “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ― Calvin Coolidge

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we”… Continue reading Untitled

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”   Abraham Lincoln