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

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.

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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...

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

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It’s doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly...

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

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.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we...

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

One of Job’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. ” If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod,...

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.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. ” There’s a temptation in our...

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

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

…failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes..” “Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early...

We kind of missed the boat on that,” he recalled. ” So we needed to catch up real fast.” The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas...

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

You would be surprised at how many corporations “none of your business” applies to!

In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

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

Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland’s farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning...

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his...

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

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

As dogs are to bark, some people are to mock.

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.

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.

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to “have skin in the game” and take the payout in stock that he would agree to...

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to...

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

Technology, is the platform that inspires the dynamics of business culture.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

There is always an Iago in every scene of life.

You don’t have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don’t trust companies; they trust people.

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.