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Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.
Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.
Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.
I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.
Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.
We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
The little things amount to big things.
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
Talk is cheap. Actions speak.
Go for great. Own your game. Be kind. Get big things done.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.
Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.
I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.
One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
The brighter the fire in your belly to achieve something special, the more hurts you'll have.
If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.
Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.
The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.
Your income reflects your self-identity. Your impact reveals your personal story.
Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?
Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.
No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.
Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.
The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.
We are shaped by our conversations.
When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.