Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. 

– Cavett Robert 

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. 

– Ernest Hemingway

Just as core values help define ‘why’ your team members work, a thoughtfully established and clearly communicated work culture defines ‘how’ the team works.

– Laura Huckabee Jennings

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. 

– Lee Iacocca

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. 

– Paulo Coelho

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. 

– John F. Kennedy

Leadership is a lifestyle, and it is all about working to improve yourself rather than trying to fix other people. The more you improve yourself and your leadership, the more successful you will be.

– Mark Younger

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. 

– Indra Nooyi

It’s the culture that attracts and retains the caliber of people who move companies from surviving to thriving. 

– Andrew Jennings 

Culture is the primary drive of economic development in the ‘Connected Age’ and innovation thrives in dense networks. 

– Andy Stoll 

To develop professionally: Adopt a beginner’s mindset, stay teachable, seek feedback, teach others, embrace teamwork.

– Dan McCabe 

Take time to invest in yourself as much as others. By doing so, I have seen that the impact I can have on others is greater when I am in a better place and space. 

– Jimmy Casas

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. 

– Ken Blanchard

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

– John Wooden

On good teams, coaches hold players accountable. On great teams, players hold players accountable.

– Joe Dumars

A team is a small number of people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

– Katzenbach and Smith

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

– Dr. Wayne Dyer

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

– Peter Drucker

Organizations can never be truly agile unless the people who work within them are agile – and more specifically, emotionally agile.

– Susan David

Leadership is influence. If people can increase their influence with others, they an lead more effectively.

– John Maxwell

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

– Peter Drucker

The new leader is a facilitator not an order giver.

– John Naisbitt

It is quickly becoming crucial for organizations to learn to engage and cultivate their Millennial employees now so their organizations are properly prepared for the not-so-distant future.

– Chip Espinoza and Mick Ukleja

Millennials are driving a fundamental change in the way we think about corporate culture and what we see as the potential for impact in the social sector by both companies and employees.

– Jean Case

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

– Simon Sinek

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer.

–Edward Hodnett

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

–Peter Drucker

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

– Winston Churchill

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.

– George Patton

Don’t hide your strategy under a bushel. Communicate it throughout your company. It’s better today to disclose too much than too little.

–Joel E. Ross

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.

–Abraham Lincoln

When an organization is ‘Fear Proof’, the individuals and teams support one another in managing the emotional content of interaction and reaction. They become more intentional in creating relationships that deliver powerful business results.

– Laura Huckabee-Jennings

Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.

–Richard Branson

Remember that what gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won’t happen. And that we succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

–Susan Scott

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

–Joseph Priestley

Far from hindering difficult decisions, great leaders use empathy and soft skills to make those decisions with an abundance of compassion.

–Laura Huckabee-Jennings

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

– Tom Peters

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

–Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting, and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

–Simon Sinek

In my 35 years in business, I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

–Kevin Roberts

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

–Wayne Dyer

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

– Theodore Roosevelt

If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world.

– Robert K. Cooper

If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

– Daniel Goleman

Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and longstanding leader. 

– Ann Fudge

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? 

– Henry David Thoreau

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. 

– William Arthur Ward

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. 

– Sir Winston Churchill 

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. 

– Japanese Proverb

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to. 

–Warren G. Bennis

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. 

– Stephen Covey

Make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, has a meaningful impact and is contributing to the good of society. 

– Larry Page

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. 

– General Colin Powell

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. 

– Henry Ford