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

…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.

One of Job’s great strengths was knowing how to focus. ” Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, ” he said. ” That’s true for companies, and it’s true...

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.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

it was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn’t subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother...

Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2.

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...