Smaller Is Smarter: Hint, Bigger Is Not

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything?

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you...

The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn’t care about what you did or didn’t do yesterday or what you’re going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right...

When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.

Helping teacher leaders come to understand their gifts is the first step in developing a specialty. Some leaders are great coaches and should focus on instructional leadership in a district or network where that is...

It’s not about how smart you are–it’s about capturing minds.

Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they’ll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best...

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger’s tail was dangerous,...

The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.

Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness… But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities...

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

A few of the managers we spoke with for this book worried that the tour of duty framework might give employees “permission” to leave. But permission is not yours to give or to withhold, and...

So much talk,talk,more talk and so little walk…What a damper!Talk comes cheap,walk needs courage…Understanding something so simple needs courage too..Simplicity is sophisticated..sophistication needs courage too…Sophistication is within…Living without needs courage too…

Comparison kills…There will always be someone ahead of you and someone behind you in life…When you see someone behind you…feel blessed for you are ahead of them…When you see someone ahead of you…feel inspired for...

There are at least a million truths that are hidden by just 100 lies.

Hatred is very powerful. It can overpower love. When a man burns in the fire of hatred, he cannot feel any love, and is willing to destroy his enemy even if it kills him. It...

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

The meaning of an education learned by a person is not truly measured by his growth attained in the profession, but by his action reflected in his assigned task consistently towards bringing the mark of...

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others’ posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others’ posts, write but never think and...

Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts; invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.

Identify and replace any limiting deep-rooted beliefs that are like a solid mental prison, including thoughts like, ‘I’m not worthy,’ ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘I’m too old to start,’ ‘I don’t have the qualification or...

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself.

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.

Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Masa depan TNI sangat ditentukan oleh kualitas generasi mudanya; untuk dapat menjawab tantangan geopolitik di abad 21 tidak cukup hanya dengan pengetahuan dan ketrampilan di bidang kemiliteran, dibutuhkan cakrawala pandang yang lebih luas dan utuh...

Unconditional kindness removes the question of self worthiness. Be kind to everyone you meet, you never know the positive difference in another’s life you can make!~

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

… we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us –...

Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue; you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!