You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.
You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.
If you don’t demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.
Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.
When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.