Stephen Covey Quotes About Leadership
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
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When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.
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Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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"You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy their heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his his resourcefulness."
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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
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