Tag: Extraordinary Life

‘Illuminating The Heart Of Leadership Through Literature’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Great businesses, great ideas, and great accomplishments usually originate in an individual’s deepest aspirations.’

‘A compelling image- of a better world and a best life for themselves- impels them forward through obstacles and hardships and engages the aspirations and dreams of others.’

‘Dreams have real and pervasive consequences, particularly the dreams of men and women with power over others.’

‘Good dreams have deep roots in a person’s character and everyday life, not in the images and seductions of society around them.’

‘What do successful leaders really care about?’-

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

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‘Good dreams reshape themselves as time goes by, and they deepen and strengthen relationships with other people.’

‘Love of drudgery may be a better test of a healthy dream than excitement or inspiration.’

‘Leaders make a difference in the world by refracting their dreams through an endless series of small and large efforts- over hours, weeks, and years.’

‘Leader’s reactions to their failures can be as revealing as the failures themselves.’

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

‘To understand whether a leader has a moral code for conditions of change and instability, we need to look more closely.’

‘Leaders can lose their way, even when they have he best of intentions and outstanding skills, because of the relentless, intense, and extraordinary varied demands they face.’

Source:

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (2006). Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature

To Create Your Own Success, You Must Read These Quotes

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

Success is not about what you have. It is about you, what you are becoming. If you want to keep growing, you must keep developing yourself.

According to Larry Weidel, ‘If you want to win, you have to keep moving forward. To keep moving forward, you have to keep making decisions.’

But ‘No advantage is a guarantee that you’ll win. No lack of advantage is a guarantee that you’ll lose.’

‘The only questions that matter to winners are: Do really want it? Does it excite me?

‘We can only be great doing things we really want to do, for our own reasons.’

‘Winners know that if you don’t figure out what you want, you’ll get whatever life hands you.’

‘While losers are overdoing their thinking and planning, winners have moved on and overdoing their activity and learning.’

‘Winners take what they know right now and choose the best course of action they can.’

‘Winners launch into every project with a mindset and plan to overdo it at the start. Because ‘just do it’ isn’t good enough.‘

‘It’s doing the extras that add the extras to your life– that give you the biggest results.’

‘The best form of confidence is the confidence that comes from achievement.’

‘Without a big goal, you don’t really have a goal at all.’

‘Pushing yourself to uncomfortable limits today makes it possible for you to handle bigger challenges tomorrow.’

‘It’s not what you have that matters, it’s what you do with what you have.’

‘Th truth about winning is that you have to start where you are and with what you have right now.’

‘Grunt work leads to greatness.’

‘Nothing of value in this world comes easy. The only way to get anywhere worthwhile is to go to work.’

Don’t just read these quotes. Use them to change your life.

As always, you are more, not less!

Source:

Larry Weidel (2015). Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success