#leaders

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands. ↗

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership #business

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice. ... Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run. ↗

— Marcus Buckingham

#leadership #management #business

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #american-history #civil-rights-movement #conflict-resolution #courage

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honesty #integrity #leadership #truth #inspirational

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say. ↗

— Tim Kirkland

#leadership #life-lessons #motivation #inspirational

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ↗