Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts [...]
I’m convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It’s a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human [...]
Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Live out [...]
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication [...]