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I regularly invite educators and leaders to send me their questions, and hundreds of them do so every month. The most common question, however, is one to which my response is probably most disappointing. The question is “How do I get better buy-in from my staff before I implement some critically needed changes?” The answer is “You don’t. ↗

— Douglas B. Reeves

#change #leadership #change

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference. ↗

— Bo Schembechler

#job #opportunities #leadership

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else. ↗

— Bo Schembechler

#team #winning #leadership

Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or serve a year at hard labor. Like Judge Carter, the national newspaper and magazine reporters waiting outside for the ruling ignored the black women's testimonies that detailed decades of mistreatment and denied King's leadership in the boycott. Instead, the media turned King into an apostle of civil rights. ↗

— Danielle L. McGuire

#martin-luther-king-jr #leadership

Leadership is unveiled by Vision, Driven by Passion, Activated by Planning, Engineered by Sacrifice and Actualized by Tireless Pursuit. ↗

— ld

#ld #leadership

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#leadership #presidency #leadership

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means. ↗

— Max McKeown

#strategic #strategy #leadership

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. ↗

— Max McKeown

#management #meetings #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy #leadership

Values and ideals rooted deeply in the Love Paradigm will profoundly affect, inform and direct in the midst of any context. ↗

— Michael M. Rose

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