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Visual Thinking
“Think of it this way: the object thinkers build the trains, and the spatial visualizers make them run.” ~Temple Grandin
The Advantage
“When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.” ~Patrick Lencioni,
The Gap and the Gain
“The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal.” ~Dan Sullivan
Caste
“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.” ~Isabel Wilkerson
The Tipping Point
“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.” ~Malcolm Gladwell
The Dream Manager
“Dreams bring us to life. Dreams animate us, and what dreams do for the individuals, they also do for relationships . . . and companies.” ~Matthew Kelly
Know What You’re FOR
“If a business was a person, many businesses would be considered narcissists. And narcissism is bad for business.” ~Jeff Henderson
Radical Candor
“When bosses are too invested in everyone getting along they also fail to encourage the people on their team to criticize one another for fear of sowing discord. They create the kind of work environment where being "nice" is prioritized at the expense of critiquing and therefore improving actual performance.” ~Kim Scott
Developing the Leader Within You
“A leader is great not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.” ~John Maxwell
Why Things Go Wrong or the Peter Principle Revisited
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” ~Laurence J. Peter
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
“People don’t care what you know until they know that you care” ~John C. Maxwell
Finish
“All you have to do is win more today than you did yesterday and repeat the whole thing tomorrow.” ~Jon Acuff
Fish!
“There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.” ~Stephen C. Lundin
How to Lead When Your Boss Can't (or Won't)
“leading isn’t about controlling; it’s about releasing.” ~John C. Maxwell
The First 90 Days
“Leadership ultimately is about influence and leverage. You are, after all, only one person. To be successful, you need to mobilize the energy of many others in your organization.” ~Michael D. Watkins
Creating Magic
“If you do not set an example of openness, you will not be trusted; if you’re not trusted, you won’t have credibility; if you don’t have credibility, you will not have influence; and if you don’t have influence, you’ll be a leader in title only.” ~Lee Cockerell
WOLFPACK
“A woman who doesn’t give up can never lose.” ~Abby Wambach
Eleven Rings
“The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.” ~Phil Jackson
The Power of Personal Accountability
To be more successful, improve relationships, set goals and fulfill dreams, these all require the practice of personal accountability.
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
“No amount of intellectual prowess or personal charisma can make up for an inability to identify a few simple things and stick to them over time.” ~Patrick Lencioni