The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

You are special individual. Never envy others.You never know what they go through.Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Jobs’s intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh,...

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

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.

The code-of-ethics playlist:o Treat your colleagues, family, and friends with respect, dignity, fairness, and courtesy.o Pride yourself in the diversity of your experience and know that you have a lot to offer.o Commit to creating...

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

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.

Jobs described Mike Markkula’s maxim that a good company must “impute”- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company’s...

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.

Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

…the message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don’t care if this window is broken: They have...

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

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called ” The Top 100.” They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could...

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

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

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

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

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

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, ” Memento Mori”: Remember you...

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an...

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Sometimes I worry about this country.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main...

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

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.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

Things to know from books to read

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without...