Why Great Leaders Focus On What Matters

‘Anyone can come up with a vision. The hard part is the holding.’

‘Keep seeing in your mind’s eye where it is you’re going, even when nobody else does. Especially when nobody else does.’

‘Give people something good to live up to- something great- and they usually will.’

‘You can lead only as far as you grow. And you will grow only as far as you let yourself.’

‘What you have to give, you offer least of all through what you say; in greater part through what you do; but in greatest part through who you are.’

‘Don’t get it backwards: don’t start thinking you’re the big deal.’

‘Great leadership is never about the leader.’

‘Great leadership is about holding people up.’

‘The best way to increase your influence is to give it away.’

‘Character is what happens when life scratches itself onto your soul.’

Stay grounded.’

Source:

Bob Burg and John David Mann (2016). The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business

Real Leaders Don’t Play With Their People

‘Leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren’t willing to do- even though they might not like doing them either.’

‘It is impossible to build a tribute to success on a foundation of excuses.’

‘Leadership is about having unshakeable faith in your vision and unrelenting confidence in your power to make positive change happen.’

‘Small little leadership acts really will compound into breathtaking consequences.’

‘Without innovation, life is death.’

‘Small daily improvements-over time- lead to stunning results.’

‘Daily ripples of excellence- over time- become a tsunami of success.’

‘The best leaders never leave the site of a good idea without doing something- no matter how small- to breathe some life into it.’

‘When you go to your limits, your limits will expand.’

‘You can never know how high you can climb if you don’t even try.’

‘Scared gets you nowhere.’

Source:

Robin Sharma (2010). The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life