Change Management Quotes
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.
Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.
