theories-of-leadership

A manager__ emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It__ to do it for the wrong reasons.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

It__ impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it__ 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.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they__e unreliable, which means they__e dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don__.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it__ safe and sensible to give it.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody__ going to decide how it__ going to be lived and that person had better be you.

Your company really has to work for you before you__l really work for your company.